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Re: TI-36X Pro Calculator for Sight Reduction
From: Peter Hakel
Date: 2011 Oct 13, 11:23 -0700
From: Dave Walden <waldendand@yahoo.com>
To: NavList@fer3.com
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 5:05 AM
Subject: [NavList] Re: TI-36X Pro Calculator for Sight Reduction
From: Peter Hakel
Date: 2011 Oct 13, 11:23 -0700
It does. I use abs(x-trunc(x))*60 to cover the possibility of x<0.
Peter Hakel
From: Dave Walden <waldendand@yahoo.com>
To: NavList@fer3.com
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 5:05 AM
Subject: [NavList] Re: TI-36X Pro Calculator for Sight Reduction
it you can remember the degrees, doesn't: (x-int(x))*60 give the decimal minutes?
>>My only criticism is that to convert an answer to degrees minutes and seconds requires six button pushes when most other calculators do it in one push.
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