Haxial Calculator Version History

Version 1.200 (15 Dec 2004)

• Added Finance Utility. Currently includes Loan and Investment tools.
• Added Text Converter Utility. Converts between different text formats such as Hex (UTF8) and Unicode.
• Added Bit Operators:
  band (Bit And)
  bor (Bit Or)
  bxor (Bit Xor)
  bnand (Bit Nand)
  bnor (Bit Nor)
  bxnor (Bit Xnor)
  
• Added Bit Functions:
  bnot(input, bitLength) Bit Not
  bshl(input, noOfBitsToShift, *bitLength) Bit Shift Left
  bshr(input, noOfBitsToShift) Bit Shift Right
  brotl(input, noOfBitsToRotate, bitLength) Bit Rotate Left
  brotr(input, noOfBitsToRotate, bitLength) Bit Rotate Right
  
• Auto-convert and display results to common radixes (binary, octal, decimal, hexadecimal) by holding down the shift key in addition to pressing enter/return when evaluating expressions
• Added a Quick Launch Button Bar to the main calculator window.
• Quick reference has been updated to "Help"
• New rule, spaces are no longer allowed in numbers. for example, "10 000" is not allowed
• Changed cmd/ctrl T to open the Text Converter and cmd/ctrl M will now switch between tiny and full modes
• Added Stone to weight conversions
• Upgraded to Unicode. Note this means Calculator will not run on older systems not supporting unicode such as MS Windows 95/98/ME.
• Additions to documentation
• Misc Bug fixes

Version 1.100 (16 Nov 2003)

• More functions!

  sin(input) Sine
  cos(input) Cosine
  tan(input) Tangent
  csc(input) Cosecant
  sec(input) Secant
  cot(input) Cotangent
  

  sinh(input) Hyperbolic Sine
  cosh(input) Hyperbolic Cosine
  tanh(input) Hyperbolic Tangent
  csch(input) Hyperbolic Cosecant
  sech(input) Hyperbolic Secant
  coth(input) Hyperbolic Cotangent
  

  abs(input) Absolute Value
  floor(input) Floor
  ceil(input) Ceiling
  mod(inputA, inputB) Modulus
  quot(inputA, inputB) Quotient
  

• New menu for selecting the angle unit (options are Radians, Degrees or Gradients).
• Added a few conversions to the "volume" category.
• Fixed a bug when using the "European-Style Points & Separators" option.
• Fixed an expression simplification bug
• Fixed a bug which sometimes allowed modified worksheets to be closed without a save warning.

Version 1.010 (27 Aug 2003)

• fixed situations for ^ where an error message was displayed inappropriately (thanks kaik).
• fixed an inaccurate gallons to cubic inches conversion (thanks don).
• fixed a bug that sometimes caused inaccuracies when using functions in odd radixes. (thanks kaik)
• fixed a misinterpretation by ^ that resulted in incorrect results in certain situations.
• fixed a bug that sometimes allowed numbers with a higher radix to be accepted in the radix converter.
• added an error message for when invalid numbers are entered in the radix or unit converter.
• changed "base" to "radix" for consistency in the radix converter.
• unit converter - in addition to the category, convert units are now "remembered" from there previous state.
• fixed a bug that sometimes caused inaccurate results at low accuracies when using functions.
• fixed a bug in e^x that sometimes called an error message.
• cleaned up results (such as removing trailing zeros) when displayed in fraction mode (thanks chuck).
• fixed problems caused by not checking the input for the logX function.

Version 1.000 (9 Aug 2003)

• Completely new powerful math engine, here are some of the features:
  Practically unlimited precision.
  Full support for fractional math, including new display mode "Fraction".
  Full support for exponents, e.g. 345*10^45.
  Full support for working in a different radix (not limited to the decimal system!).
  No more annoying bugs from the previous math engine.
  Performance enhancements.
• Unit conversion utility - ever needed to convert kilobits to kilobytes, miles to kilometers? Currently there are over 100 units to convert between.
• Radix conversion utility - e.g. convert a binary/any radix number to hexadecimal/any radix (supports radix 2 to radix 36).
• New operators
  ^ Power
  ! Factorial
• Functions!
  sqrt(input) Square Root
  cbrt(input) Cube Root
  loge(input) Natural Logarithm
  ln(input) Natural Logarithm
  log(base, input) Logarithm
  log<base>(input) Logarithm
  exp(input) Exponential
• Haxial Calculator Worksheets (.hcw) can now be saved/opened.
• Tiny Interface Mode - it really is tiny :).
• Accuracy can now be set to 1000000 (1 million!).
• Constants "e" and "pi" are now fully self generating.
• Timer - real time (not cpu time) display of the time it took for the expression to be evaluated.
• Return/enter key will now evaluate the expression unless in a worksheet (Cmd/Ctl return/enter for new line).
• Variable names can now contain numbers (first digit must still be a character e.g. Variable23).
• Added "Save Window Location/Size automatically" option.
• Added "Override Text Colors" option.
• Quick access popup menu and text box for changing current radix (base10 - decimal as default).
• First run annotations.
• Quick Reference - a basic list of what is supported. e.g. functions, operators, constants etc.
• Beep on error.
• Misc bug fixes.
• Certificates.

Version 0.904 (10 Feb 2003)

• Added support for variables.
• Added variable pane (can be collapsed).
• Added quick access for changing the mode/accuracy.
• Mode is now saved in settings file.
• Expressions may now contain multiple lines.
• Added Worksheet feature.

Version 0.903

• "ans" or "answer" can now be used in an expression to refer to the previous answer.
• Corrected the division symbol in help.
• Help now scrolls automatically.
• Added option "European-Style Decimal Points & Separators".
• Added support for comma or period separators.
• Fixed divide by zero bug.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes.

Version 0.902

• Added "Apply" button to Settings window.
• Bug fixes.

Version 0.901

• Fixed a problem with scrolling.
• Fixed some spelling mistakes.

Version 0.900

• First public release (beta).