i^x = 2

[John Keith]

(11-10-2024 12:01 PM)dm319 Wrote:  

(11-06-2024 01:04 AM)naddy Wrote:  It's perspiration rather than inspiration.

That's a great line. I'm still surprised that after all these years, Casio and TI didn't implement trig, powers and other transcendental functions on their scientifics. It won't be for lack of memory or for lack of code given their graphic calculators do.

Bit off topic, and for no good reason, I'd love to see a scientific with arbitrary base, but for which every function works in whichever base - powers, trig, fractions, decimals, scientific notation. It's a silly idea but there is an appeal for having every 'type' of number work with every function, as much as is possible.

That wouldn't require any change in the algorithms. All computers perform calculations in either binary or BCD. The base is only for display- every computer that does calculations in binary converts the result to base 10 for the user. The only thing that need change is the numeric display code.