Base Conversion & Logical Operations: Prime vs. 28S/28GX/50g on EASE OF USE

[Stevetuc]

(08-17-2018 09:14 AM)JDW Wrote:  ...And those manipulations affect ALL the #'d numbers on the stack. (On the Prime, you'd need to do that base conversion to numbers on your stack individually, eating up a huge amount of time, unnecessarily.)

Not true re the prime.
Place prime in rpn mode and base hex

Enter #FE on stack
Enter #E8 on stack

Now SHIFT Settings Octal Esc

You now have
#376o
#350o

Numbers entered with # but without explicit base (so they take the system base) will be auto converted when system base is changed
If base is entered explicitly eg #FEh then that number will not change base when system base changes

The base cycling can be added to a user key definition

Code:


KEY K_Minus
BEGIN
 Base:=(Base+1) MOD 3; 
STARTVIEW(6, 1); STARTVIEW(-1, 1);
END;

Now Shift User Base will cycle all # numbers between the bases.

I do agree though that adding softkey support and an app with single press base conversion would be desirable.