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176 CHAPTER 11 UBUNTU REPLACEMENTS FOR WINDOWS PROGRAMS Figure 11-11. GNOME Calculator Calculator also has three other modes that you can switch into using the View menu: Advanced, Financial, and Scientific. All offer calculator functions relevant to their settings. The Advanced mode is simply a more complicated version of the basic Calculator. It can store numbers in several memory locations, for example, and carry out less common calculations such as square roots and reciprocals. Floppy Formatter The Floppy Formatter is a small and simple program designed, as its name suggests, to format 3.5-inch floppy disks, as shown in Figure 11-12. You can be find it on the Applications . System Tools menu. The program can format disks in Linux (ext2) or DOS format. The latter is the best option, bearing in mind you might be sharing disks with others who run Windows. There s also no harm in doing so, since DOS-formatted disks will work fine under Ubuntu, too. Figure 11-12. Floppy Formatter