V41 and its display functions

[Ángel Martin]

(05-09-2016 07:39 AM)Dieter Wrote:  There may be some use for this with TONE, at least if the generated sounds are the ones that would be obtained by a synthetic command with the same suffix (e.g. TONE 26 produces a five-second tone – which seems to be true here). But with the display commands the double digit prompt is potentially dangerous – the user has to take care that the parameter does not exceed 9.

Yes, for "power-users" I guess there's no issue :-)

(05-09-2016 07:39 AM)Dieter Wrote:  While we're at it: Sandmath also has this "Fix Float" mode, similar to the standard display format of other calculators.
I tried Pi with different powers of 10 and this is what I got:

<see above>...

So the display is truncated, not rounded (...31415 instead of ...31416). At a certain point the display switches to scientific notation, but with merely one or two significant digits, then back to FIX 9 and then to SCI 9. Is this the way it is supposed to work?

I see what you've done, as usual pushing the envelope... (and this is a compliment). I didn't expect that "island of SCI" between before turning to the real thing, I should revise the algorithm - I don't remember how I got this done.
More to follow...

Cheers,
ÁM