Make a Command Prompt Calculator
Have you wanted to make calculations and the rubbish Windows calculator gets too tedious? Well now you can make your life infinitely easier using notepad and command prompt
Steps
- Open notepad by going to Start> All Programs> Accessories> Notepad. Vista and 7 users can just type "notepad", without quotes, into the start menu and hit enter
- Copy the following code:
- @echo off
- :start
- Echo Press 1 for Addition
- echo Press 2 for Subtraction
- echo Press 3 for Multiplication
- echo Press 4 for Division
- echo Press 5 to Quit
- set /p type=
- if %type%==1 goto a
- if %type%==2 goto b
- if %type%==3 goto c
- if %type%==4 goto d
- if %type%==5 goto e
- :a
- echo Addition
- echo Please choose the 2 numbers you wish to add
- set /p num1=
- set /p num2=
- echo %num1%+%num2%?
- pause
- set /a Answer=%num1%+%num2%
- echo %Answer%
- pause
- goto start
- :b
- echo Subtraction
- echo Please choose the 2 numbers you wish to subtract
- set /p num1=
- set /p num2=
- echo %num1%-%num2%?
- pause
- set /a Answer=%num1%-%num2%
- echo %Answer%
- pause
- goto start
- :c
- echo Multiplication
- echo Please choose the 2 numbers you wish to multiply
- set /p num1=
- set /p num2=
- echo %num1%*%num2%?
- pause
- set /a Answer=%num1%*%num2%
- echo %Answer%
- pause
- goto start
- :d
- echo Division
- echo Please choose the 2 numbers you wish to divide
- set /p num1=
- set /p num2=
- echo %num1%/%num2%?
- pause
- set /a Answer=%num1%/%num2%
- echo %Answer%
- pause
- goto start
- :e
- echo. Done!
- Go to File> Save As
- Change the "Save as type" box to "All Files"
- Type "anything.bat" into file name and click "Save"
- Double click on the file and you will get this window:
- Follow the simple instructions and your answer will be displayed
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