Hello list,
I absolutely agree about the importance of the cursor routing function
being made operational in the calculator. In fact, I would like to see some
significant improvements made to the calculator.
Most notably, it would be nice to be able to store something to memory by
letter and then call it up as part of an equation for subsequent
calculation. For instance, you find the mean of some group of numbers to be
41.6. You save this value in memory register A and then if you want to add
the mean to other values, you simply include "a" in the equation, EG.
30+(a) would return 71.6. This makes it very easy to group multiple
elements in one function. This is how the Braille Lite scientific
calculator worked and it is a much better design. In fact, "borrowing" much
of the logic of the Braille Lite calculator would greatly benefit the
BrailleNote calculator.
One other thing I would like to see added is the ability to perform
conversions from the calculator. This was also possible from the BLT and
made it easy to convert things like meters to centimeters, yards to feet,
miles to kilometers, decimal to hexadecimal degrees F to degrees C and a
host of other things. Such computations are trivial for the calculator but
can be of great value when you need to convert something and forget the old
high school conversion rules :)
I would really like to see PDI improve the calculator in the BN and
hopefully incorporate some of these features.
Cheers,
Nick
- [Braillenote] BrailleNote calculator Nicholas Giudice
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