Hi Chris and Others, FIrst of all, the dev for "CalcMadeEasy" has made accessibility improvements to the iOS app in the time since Yuma's original post, as I think Scott Howell posted (may have been on the viphone list, though). He has also been working on the MacOS App Store version of this app.
And to follow up the "moment of geekiness" experience Chris described, there are various famous tricks for remembering the number of digits in pi, like "May I have a drink, alcoholic of course?" or "See I find a rhyme assisting, my feeble brain its tasks resisting" where the number of letters in each word give the next number in the sequence of digits for pi. Of course, you then have to count up the letters in each word, if you don't simply remember the digit sequence. I think it's one of the those random acts of trivia -- like being told that you can remember the square root of 3 as being 1.732, because 1732 is the year George Washington was born. Of course, at the time you're told this, you also didn't know that George Washington was born in 1732. Geek mode off. Cheers, Esther On Apr 10, 2012, at 5:27 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Just noticed there is one little gotcha. There is a scale command to say how > many digits of accuracy you want bc to do. It defaults to 20 but that > actually means the last digit will not neccissarily be correct. For example, > I did > > 4*a(1) which gives you pi but noticed the 20th digit was actually wrong and > not just rounded wrong. It showed the 19th digit as 4 when it should be 6. > Yes, for a while I memorized another digit of pi for each birthday but > stopped that silliness after 22. It was a moment of geekness. > > CB > > On 4/10/12 11:10 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: >> If you're going to go that route you might want to pop up an OSX terminal >> and do man on bc or dc which are arbitrary precision calculators that work >> from a command line. >> >> CB >> >> On 3/1/12 10:12 PM, Emrah wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I gave up on built in calculators and now remotely connect on my Linux box >>> to use Qalc. >>> I am sure qalc can be installed on a Mac with no difficulties. >>> Qalc uses a command line interface. >>> >>> Emrah >>> On Mar 1, 2012, at 7:45 PM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: >>> >>>> It's called CalcMadeEasy Free and there's also the pro version. They're >>>> working on the ios version and as soon as they're done, they'll provide >>>> accessiblity, or moreso label the buttons. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 1/03/2012, at 11:35 PM, Scott Howell<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Yuma, >>>>> >>>>> WHich app is this one? >>>>> >>>>> On Mar 1, 2012, at 2:58 AM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> 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]. 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