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I just use 9 key/excel. Guess it's not as portable as a physical calculator.
If you are doing spreadsheet type stuff than of course excel... well.. excels.
But in case you are just using it as a way to type in arbitrary formulas, you should check out speedcrunch (GPL) for linux mac windows. You can just type in formulas and they stay in scroll back like a terminal. Instead of being constrained by mimicking a physical calculator, these people have actually thought about what would make a calculator functional on a PC. And since it has persistent history (unless you delete it) it does have some benefits of a printing calculator.