[Amps] Nice freebie

Ian White GM3SEK gm3sek at ifwtech.co.uk
Tue Aug 17 23:54:40 PDT 2010


Roger wrote:
>> Me too. A good friend tried to get me to use RPN many years ago and I
>> just couldn't get it. It seemed so strange. Regular algebraic notation
>> seems perfectly logical. There's some interesting psychology going on
>> there.  :-)

>I can work in either, but I just don't like RPN even if it is simpler. 
>I just don't think that way!

In that case you're sure to hate NETCALC:
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek/netcalc/netcalc.htm

NETCALC is a "Swiss Army Knife" calculator for (R +/-jX) impedance 
values. Like many other people back in the MBASIC era, I wrote the 
program because there wasn't anything else available at the time.

The text-based entry method is clunky by modern standards, but I 
wouldn't ever change the RPN "stack" system because it is the only 
method that works the *same* for all the possible operations you can do 
with impedance values.

But some unkind people will now ask, "And 'always works backwards' is 
good?"


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73 from Ian GM3SEK
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek


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