I don't think the built-in calculator will do it. The only Deg button is
just to switch modes from degrees to radians. There are a jillion
calculators in the app store so you might want to take a poke through
there. The LXVII calculator is one of those HP RPN calculators which
should do the trick. Every button has three additional functions beyond
its stated feature but on the 1 button there were R< and >P functions.
If I left VO focus on there for a few seconds it read the help text
saying it was rectangular to polar coordinates. On the third row of
buttons are three unlabeled buttons which are the f, g and h buttons
(which also read in the help text if you wait). They activate the
secondary functions written in different colors. So the g button says it
activates the blue functions which VO-A actually says are turquoise,
which would be the >P secondary function on the 1 key. The f key
activates the
yellow functions which VO actually reads as 'a shade of merliwood" or
something like that. So that would be the R< on the one key. I also
noticed that it didn't announce the values in the display at the top
without my moving VO focus there so I set up a hotspot VO-shift-1 and
then turned on monitoring of the hotspot VO-Command-shift-1.
Hope that makes some sense.
CB
On 2/24/12 6:52 PM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote:
Hi All,
The mac os calculator either has some serious performance problems and doesn't
have what i need or it's my perception that wants everything to be extra zippy,
and it does in fact have what i want. But the question i have needs
clairifcation before i endeavor for an alternative solution:
With the current default calculator, i have to do some tedious work before
getting results i want, ie for changing values from rectangular to polar forms
when doing complex numbers.
Normally there's a rec deg function available on all scientific calculators but
on this one, i have to manually enter the values which is a complete drag and
annoyance.
Can anyone please tell me if there is in fact a way to do this and i'm missing
out on something somewhere?
Best regards,
Yuma
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