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T-REX - Terminal Rpn calculator EXperiment
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No issue - just suggestions #1

Open Theremingenieur opened 3 years ago

Theremingenieur commented 3 years ago

What about the « ENG » number format, known from HP calculators ? It’s like the scientific format but the exponents of 10 are always multiples of 3 which makes it easier to read results in millis, micros, or nanos (old RF engineer talking here…)

Don’t take me wrong, it looks like a great project!

If you have free time over, what about doubling the stack registers and implement complex calculus (which would require an additional flag besides each stack register to mark if it’s x+jy or r e^ja format…)

Now checking how I can have Ruby on my Mac, would have preferred Python, it’s already there…

isene commented 3 years ago

ENG mode is something I use, so that would be nice to implement.

I'm not a fan of larger stacks, and complex numbers are something I almost never use. And if I do, I have more than 20 physical calculators to choose from that would do that job swiftly.

Also, Ruby is far more elegant than Python 😜