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    Re: Calculators, cosines, and floating point computation
    From: Pete Solon Palmer
    Date: 2019 Jun 5, 14:09 -0700

    Hi Frank, Paul & group,

    I have been reading this thread very closely.   I find it fascinating and impressive, since most of it sails right over my head.

    At the risk of sounding too much like a commercial, I would like to announce my Android calculator app on the Amazon and Goole app stores.  It is called "NavPak Calculator for Watches, Phones, and Tablets".  This is a beta release.   (Frank, if this is not appropriate here, just throw it out, thanks Pete)

    Given the high level of expertise on NavList, I would be honored if some of you will try my calculator app.  I'm trying to make something useful for everyday use, but also for navigators. 

    I did much of my celestial using a non-progamable calculator (casio solar powered).  I made up a little song in my head, so that I could crunch the triangles faster with the calculator than I could with the sight reduction tables.  I always wanted something with more memory registers, and an easy way to input degrees, and minutes, so I wrote NavPak Calculator.

    If any of you can find bugs, I will fix those immediately, and if anyone has any suggestions on what you would like in a navigation calculator, I will seriously consider adding it.

    Some have asked why I would write a calc app when there are already millions?  It is because some of the leading apps have bugs, such as 1+2x3=9.   I think it should be 7, because (1+(2x(3 = 7, and also I wanted to make a calculator which is friendly for celestial.

    Using my calc on the Forensic website frormula, I get 9.3.  I think the formula was asin(acos(atan(tan(cos(sin(9.  I don't know if this is good or bad or indifferent?  My app is 32 bit, but I'm required by the Google app store to provide a 64 bit version by August.  I'm not sure if that would make any difference.

    Thanks,

    Pete

       
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