WP 34S and 31S bugs and fixes

[PANAMATIK]

(12-23-2014 04:48 AM)Bit Wrote:  Seeing 2c64 may be confusing but it'd be much more confusing if the calculator operated in integer mode but it wasn't very obviously signaled to the user that something was off.

Integer mode is clearly signaled by the base incdicator b,o,d,h,3,4,5...

(12-23-2014 04:48 AM)Bit Wrote:  The bigger problem is that there's no way to contract integers like you can reals with the exponent notation.

IMO a logical integer contraction would be: mantissa, then 'e' followed by the decimal number of digits that are not shown. i.e. in binary 10011011 -> 1001e04 decimal 1234567 -> 1234e3. Its like a non normalized exponential display in real mode and easy to understand. 'e' is for: exponent in the current base, expressed as decimal number.

The little bars can still be shown, there is a maximum of 8 bars used in binary mode at wordsize 64, and there are enough matrix columns left when you show 3 digits of mantissa. The not used decimal point gives you another 3 columns.

Bernhard