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Read *everything* and you will learn something! Assembly / Windows calculator

bill190bill190 Posts: 769
edited 2010-06-15 15:41 in General Discussion
I was putting off reading "Assembly Language Primer for the Absolute Beginner" because I thought I would know most of that stuff...

Well I had time to read it today and came across this line in that wonderful text: "On a Microsoft Windows computer, you choose view, scientific from the program menu."!!!

I have been cursing that silly calculator as worthless for years, and lo and behold it turns into a useful calculator by simply clicking on "View Scientific"!

(Perhaps I should read my Windows instructions too? tongue.gif· )

More features with this optional windows calculator...
Microsoft Calculator Plus...
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=32b0d059-b53a-4dc9-8265-da47f157c091&DisplayLang=en

Assembly Language Primer for the Absolute Beginner...
http://forums.parallax.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=52004


Post Edited (bill190) : 6/14/2010 5:41:31 AM GMT

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  • Roy ElthamRoy Eltham Posts: 3,000
    edited 2010-06-14 03:52
    With Windows 7, the calculator got an upgrade. It now has programmer and statistics modes added to the standard and scientific modes.
    Programmer mode has things like RoL, RoR, Xor, Lsh, Rsh, And, Mod, and a nifty area showing up to 64bits of the binary representation of whatever number you are typing in the main area. Plus, you can set it to qword, dword, word, and byte mode to limit the math to those sizes (it'll wrap and such appropriately).

    Other things they added are digit grouping option (so that 2934289474 is displayed as 2,934,289,474), unit conversions, date calculations (days between two dates, etc.), and worksheets.

    It's turned into one of the more handy little utilities.

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  • Dr_AculaDr_Acula Posts: 5,484
    edited 2010-06-14 05:01
    Of course, now you have mentioned it, all sorts of people are going to come out of the woodwork saying they have known about this for years *grin*.

    I find the scientific mode particularly useful for hex to decimal to binary conversions. Especially since the batteries on my real scientific calculator went flat!

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  • BradCBradC Posts: 2,601
    edited 2010-06-14 05:23
    Dr_Acula said...
    Of course, now you have mentioned it, all sorts of people are going to come out of the woodwork saying they have known about this for years *grin*.

    Indeed. In fact it was so much better for so many years than commonly available calculators under Linux I ran the Win95 version under WINE for quite a while.

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  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2010-06-14 15:02
    I'm not sure who wrote the Primer(Doug Dingus?) but it has a typo on page 8 which as it is written with beginners in mind may confuse some,
    where it breaks down the hex number it shows (15 X 1096) of course this should be (15 X 4096)
  • HollyMinkowskiHollyMinkowski Posts: 1,398
    edited 2010-06-14 20:25
    I use that Microsoft Calculator Plus all the time.

    Mainly because I can't usually find my scientific calculator
    in all the mess on my work table smile.gif
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2010-06-14 20:34
    Speedcrunch is good too

    www.speedcrunch.org/en_US/index.html
  • JasonDorieJasonDorie Posts: 1,930
    edited 2010-06-14 20:39
    For those who might be unaware, the iPhone calculator in landscape mode is scientific as well. [noparse]:)[/noparse]
  • Sal AmmoniacSal Ammoniac Posts: 213
    edited 2010-06-14 21:55
    I've got several programming calculators on my iPhone that do all variety of hex/binary math. My favorite is ProgCalcPlus.
  • techstudenttechstudent Posts: 21
    edited 2010-06-15 02:38
    I never knew about the "choose view, scientific from the program menu."

    One that I recently found is virtual TI. If you are into the TI graphing calculators this program will put a virtual calculator with same look and functionality onto your screen. I use my virtual TI-89 all the time, no batteries required! just search "virtual TI"
  • max72max72 Posts: 1,155
    edited 2010-06-15 08:13
    Up to now I used speed crunch only, and it's very good, but the programmer view in the win 7 calculator is really good... and the bit wrap is an useful feature..

    Massimo
  • potatoheadpotatohead Posts: 10,261
    edited 2010-06-15 15:28
    Thanks for the typo catch. I've a few of those sent to me every coupla months. New version of that text coming soon, with corrections. Thanks for reading, and I appreciate the bug catching. I find that no matter how much I read something I've authored, catching those is just impossible. Thanks again.

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  • RavenkallenRavenkallen Posts: 1,057
    edited 2010-06-15 15:41
    @ Bill190... I guess i was late for the train to. I used to have to get on a website to convert hex to decimals, but then i heard someone talking about windows calculator. I opened it up, and sure enough, i clicked the scientific mode. I was able to convert any number with ease and i felt really stupid for not using the convenient tool earlier.

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