Maybe that's why they call it engineering notation? Professionals don't have time to mentally shift decimal points around, and in an engineering or laboratory environment, the data and results are nearly always in engineering notation. But you have to understand that in a professional environment, getting fast, accurate results is not just important, it's vital. I've been using engineering notation for years in my job. come on, there are some prefixes to learn, isn't hard. you didn't take the advice.īy the way, setting your calc in scientific notation is enough. I think this means it needs to be put in as an add-in, and hence needs to be done on the SDK. I am soon going to try translating my prog into a better language that can be made to work on the CP, but to be any use, it really needs to be accessible from the main app, like on a menu or something. and basically, if it's possible (and relatively simple) in TI basic, it has to be doable on CP. I tried writing something like this, but since I'm no programmer I thought I would use a language I know well. I'm not yet up to speed on the lua language, and I can't do C++, but it struck me that it should be fairly easy to once and for all make an app that could at least display an answer in engineering notation (like scientific notation, but exponents as multiples of three), or even better, to take a number as input and output a number with SI prefix i.e 2000 -> 2k, 2000000 -> 2M, etc.
#ENGINEERING CALCULATOR WITH PREFIXES TRIAL#
In the meantime, I have been playing with the trial of classpad manager and the Cplua emulator. Hi guys, I eventually decided to buy a classpad from ebay but it has not arrived yet.