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Re: Russian formula for Casio
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2005 Feb 12, 22:53 EST
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2005 Feb 12, 22:53 EST
George H wrote:
"Do check, won't you, that the conversion routines work correctly
for
negative angles."
negative angles."
They're not really conversion "routines" per se, George. As noted in other
messages, these casios are not programmable. It's really just a D.M.S. key
that we're talking about. So, for example, you could enter -20, press DMS (it's
labeled symbolically), then enter 30, press DMS again, and finally enter 15, and
press DMS again. The calculator displays -20'30'15' and internally it's
represented as
-20.50416667. No big deal. Any trig calculator should do that and most do,
but the implementation is very nice on the casio fx-2** series, even
improved on the latest models. And it costs $8 or less and lasts forever.
By the way, if any word in the above post is considered an insult by any
list member, I apologize in advance and prostrate myself before you for
punishment. :-)
