What's New

Version 2.3, July 16, 2006:

  • More units including currency exchange rates.
  • Savings worksheet.
  • Tips worksheet.
  • Support for different number formats.
  • Fixed minor bug in "No zeros" preference options.
  • Fixed problem with comments in unit memos.
  • Improved copy and paste.

Version 2.2, April 29, 2003:

  • New constants for (atomic weight and dice).
  • Added support for pedit32 memos.
  • Added a 'test memo setup' memo item to allow users to test if their memos are setup correctly. PawCalc also tests the memo setup at startup.
  • Enhancement to the user definable layouts to allow starting programs directly from buttons.
  • Support for hardware buttons and Tungsten T's 5-way navigation pad.
  • Added new "isfinite" function.
  • Added "Keyboard" and "Graffiti Help" menu items.
  • New string commands (string and eval).
  • Fixed problem of erroneously accepted registration codes from earlier versions.

Version 2.1, Januar 8, 2003:

  • PawCalc is now programmable.
  • Added clothes sizes, computer memory sizes, enumerations, and radio activity to unit conversions.
  • Added a loan worksheet.
  • Numbers can now be displayed and written with commas separating groups of digits.
  • Small change to the units, constants, and functions memo syntax to better support multiple memos.
  • Enhancement to the user definable layouts to allow for more than three characters of text.
  • Added menu items to clear the history of old expressions and results and to delete all variables.

Version 2.0, April 22, 2002:

  • Added "memo setting" menu option.
  • New commands: xnor / xnr (exclusive nor), nPr (permutations), nCr (combinations).
  • Fixed bug in layout causing a blank entry after user defined entries.
  • Changed licensing scheme.

Version 2.0 beta 2, January 11, 2002:

  • Fixed miscellaneous bugs.
  • Changing the preferences now only re-displays the last result instead of re-calculating the last expression.

Version 2.0 beta 1, May 16, 2001: Totally rewritten program. New features include:

  • Complex numbers.
  • User definable constants.
  • User definable unit conversions.
  • User definable screen layouts.
  • Integer division and remainder calculation.
  • Random numbers.
  • Fixed miscellaneous bugs.
  • This version of PawCalc is not programmable.
  • Multi-argument functions (fx. bessel, perm, comb) are not available here. It is the plan to offer them as programs in later editions of PawCalc.

Version 1.1, August 1, 2000: Web site and email changed from PawSoft to PawEng. No other changes made and thus no new version number.

Version 1.1, May 23, 2000:

  • The output type (bin,oct,dec,hex,frac) can be set in the preferences.
  • Added choice of divisor for variance and standard deviation calculations.
  • PawCalc now warns before clearing the statistical registers.
  • Bitwise operators: AND, OR, NOT, XOR.
  • Modified the screen layout.
  • New pop-up list with old results.
  • Scroll keys now active -- use them to select the screen layout.
  • Programs are disabled for OS 2.
  • Fixed bug causing PawCalc to hang if a semicolon was missing after the 'say' command.

Version 1.01, March 18, 2000:

  • Added 'say' command to the programming language (OS 3 and higher).
  • Added standard deviation.
  • Fixed bug in perm(n,k).
  • Fixed bug in bessel(n,x) for n < 0.

Version 1.0, February 13, 2000:

  • First non-beta version.
  • Added 'pref' command for programs.
  • Fixed misc. bugs including a bug causing PawCalc to not recognize some programs and a bug causing PawCalc to 'hang' when calculating 0/0 or calling functions with non-finite arguments.
  • Added new functions: erf, erfc, bessel, gamma.
  • Factorial function generalized to non-integer as well as negative numbers.
  • Rearranged buttons on the screen and added four layout options.
  • Added statistical functions.
  • Added STx and RCx buttons for easy storing and recalling of variable x.

Version 0.9.04 beta, January 9, 2000:

  • Rearranged the buttons on the screen.
  • Fixed bugs in unit conversions causing mistakes in units containing the '/' character.

Version 0.9.03 beta, December 21, 1999:

  • Increased the size of the pop-up list with old expressions.
  • Fixed bug in inHg unit conversion.
  • Fixed minor bugs.

Version 0.9.02 beta, December 11, 1999:

  • Added support for programs.
  • Added support for binary, octal, and hexadecimal numbers.
  • Removed the welcome screen.
  • Added the inHg unit.
  • Fixed negation bug.
  • Fixed minor bugs.

Version 0.9.01 beta, September 21, 1999: Fixed errors in the display function.

Version 0.9 beta, August 30, 1999: First beta release.