Calculators on desktops (was Re: Octal)

[Dave McGuire]

On Sep 1, 2006, at 6:10 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
>> No offense intended, but are you sure it's not
>> set up for no decimal places, or perhaps
>> it's just MS's programmers being lazy? :)
>
> LAZY.
> It has non-integer math support for decimal,
> but they left it off of the other bases.

   Lazy and inexperienced.  The math doesn't need to be re-done in other 
bases.  Bases are an input/output representation only...and as such, 
any conversion for a given base should be done at the time of entry and 
display, and that's all.

   Yay Microsoft "engineers".

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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