SwissMicros Calculator Forum

First your example: What's the problem with realizing the display format late? Internally, your WP43 calculates with its full precision always (i.e. typically 39 digits, rounded to 34). The display format may be FIX 2, SCI 12, ENG 4, or ALL 0 - the result will be the same - the format is for displa...

Please allow me to disagree here. IMO, each and every user can recognize a display format like FIX 2 as long as just a single real number is displayed - they could in 1975 and can in 2024 (unless mental abilities deteriorated in last decades which I hope not). REALDF:1 #DEC:2 is just for the over-c...

OM 0.25.2 p82 ADM "grades" -> "grads" or "gradians" p87 Real Numbers: Changing the Display Format since the calc doesn't otherwise indicate the current display format, may I suggest that this section includes mention of variables REALDF & #DEC ? Or… I'd also like to...

Walter wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 07, 2024 8:32 pm

The year one was used to allow for D.MY and M.DY as well.

good point! thanks Walter.

thanks Walter; a few more: OM 0.25.2 p58 "Statistical data can be stored value by value, point by point, or en bloc". In English (sic), it would be more common to say "en masse". Or just "as a block". p75 (and p76) Date example seems odd, with "0001" for the y...

OM 0.25.2

p57 fn61 "calculator backside" > "calculator back".

"backside" often means bottom, as in buttocks (Gesäß?), leading to chuckles amongst your more puerile readers. Or perhaps that was intentional

OM 0.25.2

p202 "Proposal for Configuration Setting — Based on what was discussed above, the following settings… Set SSIZE8 and SPCRES"

yet this is the first mention of SPCRES in OM.

Walter wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 04, 2024 10:16 pm

It suffices telling EXIT closes x without duplicating it.

Right; I'm suggesting noting that fact in this section; it doesn't currently, as far as I can see?

Perhaps I should word it differently… ENTER: closes x and copies it into y, lifting the stack, and losing T (with 4-level stack) (from p36) EXIT: closes x, but does not copy it into y, does not lift the stack, does not lose T I was asking whether it might be useful to note that behaviour of EXIT, in...

OM 0.25.2 p38 fn33 ASL. Should this perhaps also mention EXIT , which will close input without ASL? p41 ladder example. I believe current ladder safety guidance suggests a 4:1 ratio of wall height to base, which is about 76/14°, quite close to the value you reject as unsafe, for the 29′ ladder. Tha...