Calculators For Everyday Life: From the Bedroom To the Bank
Calculators perform everyday calculations quickly. Portable and inexpensive, today's handhelds have come a long way since 18-year old genius mathematician Blaise Pascal created the first digital calculating wheel in 1642 to help his father with tax work. Most of today's portable calculators are hand-held devices. If you are looking to find how much you have left to payoff your mortgage, or need to halve a recipe or convert acres to feet, you will find calculators on the Internet to do just that. Common calculators are compiled below. Many calculators require a JavaScript plug-in.
Financial
Cost-of-Living Calculator: Find out if you can maintain your quality of life in your new city.
Mortgage Calculators: Loan, loan payment, comparison, payoff, and even an "opinionated" mortgage calculator.
Tax Calculators: Find your 1040 tax estimates, among other tax calculators available. Tax definitions below calculators.
Loan Interest Calculator: Figure your monthly payment, life of loan interest amount, get an amortization schedule, and see what's left of your principle to pay down.
Amortization Calculator: Enter your principal and annual interest rate along with the loan term to get an amortization chart showing monthly principal and interest payments.
Investment Calculators: Analyzes current and potential returns for various types of investments.
401K Calculator: Take the mystery out of retirement and use this 401K to figure your savings with and without employer matching.
Savings Calculators: How much can you save over time?
Credit Card Calculator: CNN's debt reduction calculator helps you to see how long that it will take you to pay off your credit cards.
Sales Tax Calculator: Simply enter the cost of the product, then enter the sales tax percentage. It figures your sales tax and total cost of the product.
Measurement
Acreage Calculators: Whether your acreage falls into a square or an irregular trapezoid, these calculators will tell you how much you have to the tenth of an acre or 4,356 square feet.
Area Calculators: Although the site is based in the UK, you can choose English or Metric units of measurement.
Tile Calculator: Click on tile calculator to find how many tiles you will need (not counting your 10 percent suggested overrun). Window will pop up with your calculator so make sure that you've enabled pop-ups.
Kitchen
Automotive
Miles Per Gallon: Calculate your gas usage and get your MPG. Even tells you how much carbon dioxide you are emitting and gives tips on how to improve your gas mileage.
Loan: How much will your monthly payment be? Plug in your terms and find out.
Payoff Calculator: Save interest by paying off your auto loan early. Calculate your amortization schedule.
Electronics
Voltage Drop: Select voltage and cable size to obtain the load.
Resistance: Resistance against steady current is calculated.
Wire Size Calculator: Figure out what size of wire or cable is needed for your pump or landscaping project.
General Mathematics/Conversion Calculators
Basic Math: Addition, subtraction, multiply, and divide with this easy calculator.
Fraction Calculator: Adds, substracts, multiplies, and divides so you can check your work. Input your two fractions, click your function, and get your result.
Graphing Calculator: Free graphing calculator opens in a pop up window. Site offers an abundance of student tips.
Imperial-Metric/Metric-Imperial Calculators: Easy-to-use, converts length, weight, area, and volume from English to Metric system and back again.
Temperature Conversion: Convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius or Kelvin.
Currency Converters: Converts any currency from the American Dollar to the Venezuelan Bolivar.
Time Zone Converter: World clock accounts for Daylight Savings Time and local time zone.
Military to Civilian Time Converter: Three calculators give you morning time, afternoon and nights to midnight, and basic straight conversion from military to standard, or civilian, time.
Computers
Binary: Take any text string and convert it into binary (base 2) code. Fun for secret messages.
Hexadecimal: Type one number, including negatives and fractions, in any of the boxes and conversion is automatic.
CPU Clocking Calculator: Overclock, CPU temperature, and ºC/W rating calculators.
Subnet Calculator: Calculates using class, IP address, subnet mask and bits, maximum subnets, mask bits, hosts per subnet to retrieve first octet range, Hex IP address, wildcard mask, host address range, subnet ID, broadcast address and subnet bitmap.
Network Calculator: Subnet mask, network/node, IP address converter, subnet mask converter and inverter calculators.
Miscelaneous
BTU Calculator: Find out how many BTUs to heat or to cool a room. Java version available.
GPA Calculator: Enter grades for up to 50 classes to find your cumulative GPA.
Dog Years Calculator: Fun calculator let you convert your dog's age to human years and human to dog years. Also includes a section of JavaScript to add to your own site.
Tipping Calculator: Calculates 10, 15, and 20 percent tips.
Running Calculator: How many calories did you burn while running?
Ovulation Calculator: Pinpoint your best chances of getting pregnant.
Due Date Calculator: Click the wheel, last day of your cycle, add the optional luteal phase and cycle lengths and get your due date.
BMI Calculator: Your body mass index is a better indicator than weight for determining good health.
Time Card Calculator: Calculate how many hours you work in a work week.
Plant Calculator: How many plants will cover your selected space?
Plant Coverage and Cost: Get the total estimated cost and area of coverage with this JavaScript enabled calculator.
Electoral Map and Calculator: Create election scenarios, calculate the next presidential election's electoral votes.
Distance Calculator: Find the distance from point A to point B either by entering the information or by dragging and dropping the map line.
