Number format toggle key

[Dands]

(04-01-2020 08:20 PM)RocaSeba Wrote:  

(04-01-2020 07:34 PM)Dands Wrote:  Ok great. So I have this number in my Home, selected the value and pressed Alpha + ab/c and this orange zero showed in the top left corner very quickly. The value wasn't converted. Am I doing it wrong it should have cycled between notations?

That's because the program only works if you are in standard, scientific, engineering or floating format, if you are in another one the variable name si set to zero and nothing happens, if you want i could adapt the program to cycle all the number formats!

Ok now it worked. It's a cool program, but you know what would be much nicer for us engineers?

You could implement something like the ENG key in Casio calculators that will change the format to 10E0, 10E3, 10E6 and 10E9 (and negative exponents too). This is useful because if you get a result, i.e., 5E2 you can easily change it to 500E0, 0.5E3, etc. You must be able to cycle through these, though.

You could program the EEX key to go forward and some other key to go backwards, just like the Casio.

This would be great.

edit

Some guys already tried it:

https://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-5039.html