41 MCODE - Dynamic FIX Mode

[Ángel Martin]

(02-12-2015 09:32 PM)Dieter Wrote:  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 –

Yes it's tricky, and obviously won't be capable of overcoming the limitations in the machine's numeric range - but is it good enough to select the best option within the available choices. For instance in the example you mention it'll display the number using FIX 9, or 0,033333333 ; which is as much as the coconut can say about that. The displaying is the rounded value to the FIX setting, not truncated of course.

For a couple of interesting examples, try:

2, SQRT, X^2 to see 1,999999999 (so far so good), and
1, E^X, LN to see 1,000000000 *instead* of just "1" - meaning there is a tenth digit in the mantissa (even if not shown) that isn't zero.

Hey, I may be reinventing the wheel but I'm also having a ball in so doing ;-)