OS X Calculator

[starrin]

Hello,

Is there a simple way to conver octal numbers to binary or hex within the OS X calculator?

If not -- any suggestions?

Thanks,

Jason

 

[grapes911]

Try this. You've got to love version tracker.

 

[robbieduncan]

Google

You can use the Google Calculator.

For example: 0x7f in base 10

 

[Loge]

From the menu, choose

View - Display Format - Octal

Key in your number in octal, then choose

View - Display Format - Hexadecimal/Binary

to display the number converted to Hex/Binary

 

[starrin]

Hi there,

Thanks ... this will help ... unfortunately no floating point ... but i will make do 🙂

 

[starrin]

Loge -- when I do that and type somthing into the calculator it is typing it in as decimal. and converting it on the fly.

so I guess I can only go decimal to octal or hex ... plus no floating point

 

[starrin]

Thanks ... Google is really cool ... still no floating point ... I will do these floating points by hand

 

[Loge]

Loge -- when I do that and type somthing into the calculator it is typing it in as decimal. and converting it on the fly.

so I guess I can only go decimal to octal or hex ... plus no floating point

Yep, I hadn't noticed that 😱 . Looks like it's Google then.

Alternatively you could open a terminal window and run the unix program bc. Then just type the following to go from octal to hex.

ibase = 8
obase = 16

Then anything you type in will be interpreted as octal and converted to hex when you hit enter. Not sure if it can handle FP. Type quit when you're done. You can get the documentation by typing "man bc" from terminal.

 

[Vanilla]

If someone out there knows how to get the installed calculator to display results in edited format (e.g. "12345678.34" would be displayed "12,345,678.34") I would be eternally grateful. It's the one feature in Windows XP that I really miss.
Vanilla

 

[superbovine]

Thanks ... Google is really cool ... still no floating point ... I will do these floating points by hand

what about enter in the decimal then doing view->display->IEEE Hexadecimal?