Yes, I can Google a bazillion of these, but I just wanted to see if anyone had recommendations for a good Win calculator that's geared specifically towards programmers to deftly handle bin, dec, hex conversions and manipulations.
Any help is appreciated!
start -> run -> calc
It can handle binary, dec, hex, and oct just fine
Ditto
Funny, good ol' Windows Calculator, huh? OK, thanks!
just make sure to put it into scientific mode
One stupid question - I seem to be unable to enter binary numbers that contain more than one 0 in the msb's (like 00000001), although something like 10000000 is displayed as expected. Is there a way to force the calc to do what I want it to?
There is no need to enter any zeroes at all as MSD's. 00000001 is still 1. You'll end up with the same value in any number system, just do what you have to do to get it to fit nicely in memory, whether by using a bigger byte-sized variable or but adding 0's as MSBs. If you have a problem with two's-complement, than I don't think Calculator can do that, but it's much faster to just do it in your head.
OK, I got you - I'm really just starting out with binary, so I just wanted to see those zeroes to help mark the bits in my head.
PCalc is pretty nifty. It lets you input any standard C/C++ equation and shows the answer in floating point, hex, octal, integer, binary, and char all at the same time.
