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You're in luck! A friend of mine has been working on exactly such a calculator for his iPhone.
http://scicalc.belfry.com/
It looks quite funky on non-iPhone devices, but I am led to understand that it looks pretty slick on the iPhone. Give it a whirl.
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http://xmission.com/~egan/35/calc.html
Too small or too big?
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Gene,
The current solution for app developers of the iPhone to use Web 2.0 technologies is IMO not adequate. I hope (and believe) that Apple will open the iPhone to developers at some point in the future, at which point we can natively port HP calculator emulators to the iPhone. A voyager series model would have a very good form factor (although a bit smaller) on the iPhone. I think a port of Eric Smiths Nonpareil HP 11C or 15C would be great. Especially since the back end engine could be taken as is and only the front-end would have to be re-written. I did toy with the idea of porting Nonpareil to javascript, but, there is the speed issue and the idea of having to launch the web browser to run the app is not very appealing.
Steve