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Re: [AVR-Chat] Re: Handheld calculator for hex, binary, etc.?

2008-05-17 by Philippe Habib

Don't forget shifts.  In fact, you couldn't go very wrong by just  
duplicating the HP16's features.
On May 16, 2008, at 5:17 PM, erikc wrote:

> Philippe Habib wrote:
>> I'd pay $60 for a good one.  By good I mean something that does all
>> the bases, handles logical functions, complements, etc. and just
>> works out of the box.  Rather than physical transparency, I think the
>> real transparency of open source and the ability to add programs or
>> features would be the real draw.
>>
>> Add a place for a small memory card to transfer programs and you'd
>> really have something nice.  I might even pay as much as $100 if it
>> was really nice.
>>
>> On May 16, 2008, at 3:39 AM, BobGardner@aol.com wrote:
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> Really nice would be converting back and forth between decimal
> floating point and binary floating point, also 64-bit precision.
> Another really nice feature would be scaled fixed point binary
> arithmetic.  A definite YES on the programmability.
>
> Sounds like a good project.
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