Guest lightnix Posted March 14, 2004 Share Posted March 14, 2004 I'm sure you can get one specially made for a palm top thingymajigy!A friend of mine knocked up a spreadsheet for his Psion a few years back, which did the job very well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam.henderson Posted March 14, 2004 Share Posted March 14, 2004 I'm sure you can get one specially made for a palm top thingymajigy!A friend of mine knocked up a spreadsheet for his Psion a few years back, which did the job very well. Yeah, You could probably knock a formula up using a IF Function. I'll have a go and see where it gets me Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterT Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 Hi all If people are interested in a DIP switch calculator for Microsoft Pocket PC then I can knock one up fairly easily, just let me know and I'll sort some code out. PNOh yes please, that'd be fab. There's absolutely Nothing for a Pocket PC out there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 pocket pc software is rare as no one really wants to go near win CE for it. sounds like a very good idea to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellis Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 pocket pc software is rare as no one really wants to go near win CE for it.For very good reason - CE is lobotomised Windows - it is a pig to write for. (I have in the past ported a Geographical Information System to CE) The easiest way would ne to write an Excel spreadsheet, active-sync it onto the PDA and use it in pocket excel. The way I was taught to convert to binary was to successsively divide by 2, the remainder being the value for the relevant bit. e.g. 42 / 2 = 21 rem 021 / 2 = 10 rem 110 / 2 = 5 rem 05 / 2 = 2 rem 12 / 2 = 1 rem 01 / 2 = 0 rem 1 Taking the remainders in reverse order: 42 base 10 = 101010 base 2 You can use this to convert from base 10 to any base by dividing by the base. This form of arithmetic is known as modulo arithmetic. To answer the original question: I do it in my head because I have been doing binary and hexadecimal for donkeys years. HTH Ellis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peternewman Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 Pocket PC is easy to write in as Embedded Visual Basic, just a few features removed from normal Visual Basic, an Excel spreadsheet would also work as mentioned by ebirt. However as we all know Pocket PC isn't the easiest to enter data with in something like Excel, so hopefully something else will be easier to work with. PN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzette Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Doesn't anybody use their brains anymore and just work out the dip switches in their heads??? Brain cells die a lot slower if you use actually them, it's only a little bit of maths, not rocket science! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin24 Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 I agree with Suzette, it really isn't rocket science, but very basic addition or subtraction which ever way you look at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Some Bloke Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Entirely agree. I go with addition rather than subtraction as I find it easier to do in the head. Say you want to make 57 - nearest number is 32 then add 16 gets you to 48 then add 8 gets you to 56 then add 1 gets you to 57. Easy. By the time you'd got your palm-top out, run the software and looked it up I could have finnished addressing the whole rig (within reason!). It does all remind me of that old joke, though:"I've explained binary to you 10 times now and I'm not going over it a third time". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterT Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Doesn't anybody use their brains anymore and just work out the dip switches in their heads??? Brain cells die a lot slower if you use actually them, it's only a little bit of maths, not rocket science!I entirely agree with you Suzette however the palm software also did DMX universes giving local addresses depending on which universe you were using and the calculator bit was very handy for such things! Edit to correct bad grammar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam.henderson Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Doesn't anybody use their brains anymore and just work out the dip switches in their heads??? Brain cells die a lot slower if you use actually them, it's only a little bit of maths, not rocket science! Although I adgree with youm if you are pressed for time in a Get In the you don't want to be standing arround practising your menatl mats when it would be so much easier just to do it with a few clicks of a button. Technology is here to help us mainly as a timesaving tool so lets use it. Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 It refuses to work with Palm OS 5 - does it not, or is it me doing something wrong?I've got a treo and crashed it for the first time by installing this software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 ... or you could just try the standard Microsoft calculator (part of all windows systems I think), view it in "scientific" mode, enter the number in decimal and click on "binary"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minimac Posted March 17, 2004 Author Share Posted March 17, 2004 Going off my original point, what is the best "palm computer" at the mo? And where should I get it? Not pc world please! :D around £300? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted March 17, 2004 Share Posted March 17, 2004 There is a handy dip switch tool, and many other amazingly useful utilities, in LD Calculator ~Grahame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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