Flipping bits in MacOSX calculator

[afuna_archive]

Oh, I just realized that you can click in the binary section of the Mac OSX calculator to flip the bits and enter binary numbers. All this time, I've been wondering why there was no binary input mode (there's Hex, Oct, Dec, but no binary). So, whenever I needed to convert from binary to decimal, I'd convert it in my head, and then enter the decimal number, and then double-check against the displayed/converted binary.

It turns out all I needed to do was click in the right place(s)...

Comments

[pne.livejournal.com]

I wonder why you didn't conver to hex or oct instead; wouldn't that have been easier since you can simply take four (three) binary digits at a time and convert, rather than having to convert the entire number?

[afuna]

I think I did that too, sometimes, depending on the number. *grin*

I mean sometimes, my mind just naturally went to hex (not octal),a and sometimes it seemed easier to go to decimal.