kcalc suggestions
Eike Krumbacher
eike.krumbacher at x-eike.de
Sat Apr 17 16:58:23 CEST 2010
Hi!
By selecting the buttons from the menu, one has the ability to calculate
the square root of a5-bit number and show the result as some bits, which
is strange but at least gives a wrong result.
IMHO, kcalc should have exact modes:
1* Easy mode: just the numbers and some basic operations
2* Engineer mode: trigonometric and x^2, sqrt(x) and so on + constants
3* Statistic mode engineer+statistics buttons
4* Logic mode: bit edit, hex, oct, dec and bin selection, but not x! or
x*y^z and so on
Furthermore, I would like to suggest to reduce the abilities to this,
what kcal really can do. Actually, its's a mixture of features, which do
not really fit together, like a very good factorial, which can compute
the factorial of all atoms in the universe but cannot calculate
log(10^400). The reason for this might be the underlaying math lib
"gmp", which can not do some math things, a calculator needs. IMHO, we
should remove gmp completly and live with what libm gives us.
What do you think?
Eike
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