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{{short description|Graphing calculator software}}
{{Infobox software
| name                          = NuCalc (Graphing Calculator)
| logo                            = <!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:GcIcon.png|48px|Graphing Calculator Mac OS X Icon]]  -->[[Image:Graphing Calculator Viewer.png|Graphing Calculator Viewer for Mac OS icon]]
| screenshot                  = Graphing Calculator screenshot.png
| screenshot size             = 250px
| caption                       = Graphing Calculator 4.0 under [[Mac OS X Lion|Mac OS X 10.7.4]]
| developer                   = Pacific Tech
| operating system       = [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[OS X]], [[iOS]]
| genre                         = [[:Category:Plotting software|Plotting]]
| latest release version = 5.2
| license                       = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]
| website                     = {{url|https://pacifict.com/}}
}}
'''NuCalc''', also known as Graphing Calculator, is a [[computer software]] tool made by [[Pacific Tech]]. It can graph [[inequality (mathematics)|inequalities]] and [[vector field]]s, and [[function (mathematics)|function]]s in two, three, or four [[dimension]]s. It supports several different [[coordinate system]]s, and can solve [[equation]]s. It runs on [[OS X]] as Graphing Calculator, and on [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]].

==History==
The Graphing Calculator 1.0 software was bundled with all [[Power Macintosh]] computers since its introduction in 1994.  Having shipped on more than 20 million machines, it is the most familiar version of the program. This version of Graphing Calculator was secretly developed at Apple by Ron Avitzur, an abandoned contractor who felt obligated to complete the project, and their friend and colleague Greg Robbins.<ref>{{cite web | title=The Graphing Calculator story | url=http://www.pacifict.com/Story/ | access-date=January 12, 2007}}</ref>  NuCalc 1.0 is for [[680x0]] Macintosh.  In 2005, ''[[This American Life]]'' featured Avitzur's story in episode 284, ''Should I Stay or Should I go?''.<ref>{{cite web | title=Should I Stay or Should I Go? | date=11 March 2005 | url=http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/284/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go | access-date=September 21, 2010}}</ref>

At one time, it was a free download for [[Mac OS 9]], [[Mac OS X v10.3|Mac OS X 10.3]], and [[Mac OS X v10.4|Mac OS X 10.4]]. However, these may lack some features of 1.0 and may include promotion for the more advanced, commercial version of the software. A Windows version (offered for sale) was renamed NuCalc.

The app has been ported from [[C++]] to [[Swift_(programming_language)|SwiftUI]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.swift.org/blog/graphing-calculator|title = Developer Spotlight: Porting Graphing Calculator from C++ to Swift}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Grapher]] — Apple's replacement is included with [[Mac OS X v10.4|Mac OS X 10.4]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official website|https://pacifict.com/}}
*[https://www.pacifict.com/Secrets.html Information and Download for the original Graphing Calculator 1.0 for PowerPC and 680x0 Macs]
*{{cite magazine |last1=Kahney |first1=Leander |title=Wired News - Worming Into Apple |magazine=Wired |url=https://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,66138,00.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512210639/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2F2004%2F12%2Fworming-into-apple%2F&strip=1&vwsrc=0 |archive-date=May 12, 2019 |date=December 27, 2007 |access-date=March 10, 2017 }}
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMyg5ohTsVY Google Tech Talk of the story behind NuCalc]
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