Hi Chris, Thanks for that one. Will be checking it in detail later this week.
I found another one with a note taking part where you can paste past calculations or parts of it and plug it back into equations. The issue is that all the buttons are unlabelled :) The devver was forthcoming in rectifying this so good, but i need an immediate solution so your suggestion might stick once i've understood the layout Thanks again Yuma On 1/03/2012, at 7:25 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
