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  1. 0660103030566
  2. 9[....................................................]
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  4. BICALCULATORVERSION2
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  6. byAlainBirtz.
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  9. NOTE:Thisprogramispublicdomain,andcanbecopiedfreely.
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  12.      Toinstallthecalculatorasadeskaccessory,rename
  13. "BICALCV2.ACC"to"DESK3.ACC"ontheTOSdiskandreset.Now,
  14. clickonthe"Calculator"itemintheDeskmenu,andthe
  15. calculatorwindowwillappear.(Itcanbemoved,closedortopped,
  16. likethecontrolpanel).
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  18.      Thecalculatorcanoperateinhexadecimalordecimalmode,
  19. andwillconvertnumberswhenswitchingbetweenthetwomodes.
  20. (Therearealsolimitedbinaryandoctaldisplayfunctionswhile
  21. indecimalmode.)
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  23. Thekeys:
  24. 
  25. "|"isthelogical'or'operator
  26. "&"isthelogical'and'operator
  27. "o"displayinoctal
  28. "b"displayinbinary(last8bits)
  29. "!"isthefactorialoperator
  30. "+/-"changesthesign
  31. "."isthedecimaldot
  32. "%"isthepercentoperator
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  34.      Thecalculatorwilldomathematicaloperationsin
  35. integer,exceptifoneorbothoperandsisexpressedindecimal
  36. format(withoneortwodigitsafterthedecimalpoint).For
  37. example:9/4gives2asaresult(fractionalpartistruncated)
  38. but9.00/4or9/4.0willgive2.25.
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  40.      Thecalculatorislimitedto8digitsinhexadecimalmodeand
  41. 9digitsindecimalmode(includingthedigit(s)afterthedecimal
  42. point).WARNING:Errorswillnotbedisplayed,sostaywithinthe
  43. 8digitrestriction.
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  45.      Version2canbeusedinallresolutions(blackandwhite,
  46. andcolor),andbothkeyboardandmousecanbeused(butletters
  47. mustbeenteredinlowercaseonly).UseDeletekeytoclear.
  49. AlainBirtz
  50. (Compuserve#72467,2770)
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