41 MCODE - Dynamic FIX Mode

[Dieter]

(02-12-2015 07:46 PM)Ángel Martin Wrote:  BTW I think I'm after a nice enhancement: would you see any value in having the calculator display only the significant decimal digits all the time? In other words, like a dynamic FIX setting that would adjust itself depending on the number to show: FIX zero for integers, fix 3 if all digits after the 3rd. are zero… etc.

Sounds like you just reinvented the wheel. ;-) This "dynamic FIX mode" seems to be the STD mode on later HPs. Or the one and only display mode of the original HP35. Or similar to the standard ALL mode in recent calculators.

Such a mode can be quite tricky. For instance, what do you do with x=1/30? The 41's display is too small for 0,03333333333 so two digits have to be dropped. How many lost digits are accepted then? And which is better: 0,000333333 or 3,333333 –04 – ask Pauli about the 34s ALL mode. ;-)

(02-12-2015 07:46 PM)Ángel Martin Wrote:  PS. Is this the same as the FIX ALL in the 34S? I must admit I never read that part of the manual...

The 34s has an ALL mode, but it is configurable as is accepts an argument: ALL 3 means that 1/300 still is displayed as 0,00333333333 but 1/3000 switches to scientific notation (3,33333333333 –4).

And BTW yes, I would consider such a display mode very useful – I always missed it on the '41.

Dieter