Registered: Dec 2000
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 75

Fractions with Calculators

I have been looking for a calculator that will allow you do express decimals as fractions.

I had a scientific calculator years ago, when I was in high school, that would actually let you turn 0.25 into 1/4 on the calculator screen.

Are there any programs, or perhaps a feature in the HS Calc, that will produce that output?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Shakes

Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Greenville, SC
Posts: 172

Parens, the full version of Parens lite that comes with Visors may be able to do it. Check out the manual. There is a "frac" button on the Handspring version, but as far as I can tell, all it does it take away the integer. e.g. 5.77775 becomes 0.77775
Parens user manual

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Galley

Registered: Dec 2000
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 75

Yeah, Parens does the same thing.

I actually found a program on PalmGear that lets you do fractions. It's method is a little weird, but nonetheless, it works!

For example: 1 3/4 would be inputted as: 1.3.4 and so forth. It will then give you an answer in the same format. And it really works!

Thanks for the help!