Hidden Treasures: The other calculators, Pt 1, published Wed 5 Jul 2006 - By Jay Gross, backs up his opening claim that: "your Treo is here to help add up your checkbook, finish your calculations for that fluid dynamics quiz, and pinpoint the standard deviation on your weekend golf scores."
Accessing the hidden calculators:
"The basic calculator (tap the Calc icon on the Apps screen) does only the basics. With it running, push the Right button on the 5-way to bring up the advanced Math calculator. The other "hidden" calculators display in a round robin from there - keep pushing the Right button on the 5-way. You could also use Calc's pulldown menus and choose 'Math'."
"There are nine more calculators in the Treo 650 and 700p than first meet the eye, and they're almost completely undocumented. Palm's manuals leave you on your own not only to find them, but to figure out how they work. This is the first of a two-part article that explores and explains those powerful extra calculators and documents their functions so you can use them, at last.
First, the cook's tour of the calculators, then we'll visit the issues that affect them all. In the second part of the article, we'll examine each calculator in detail, in turn. I've chased down all the functions, figured out all of the features and how to use all of the extra calculators, so the second part of this article takes up where the Treo manuals leave off. Sorry about having to split this info into two parts - it was just too long to publish as one. Your scroll mouse would go on strike from exhaustion."
Hidden Treasures: The other calculators, Pt 2, published Thu 20 Jul 2006 - By Jay Gross expands on the features of the hidden calculators.
"This is part 2 on the Treos' extra calculators. It documents the first three of them. We'll spend some time with Math first, and then visit Trig and Finance. To review, get Calc running and press the Right button on the 5-way, or check out Part 1 in this series . Having all the extra calculators around isn't useful if you don't know how to use them or what they're for, so I'll take it slow and document their features, explain what their buttons do. The final episode in this series will finish off with the Logic, Statistics, and Conversion calculators."
"The Treo 650 and 700P include powerful math, trigonometry, and financial calculators, and that's just the beginning. Curious that the powerful features aren't documented in Treo manuals, but the information in this and the next part of this continuing saga should get you going."
This is a very well done series of articles which more than makes up for the 'missing' user manual from Palm. Keep up the great work Jay Gross and TreoCentral! The hidden calculators detailed here are even more advanced than the 'Advanced Mode' that was available (hidden) on many earlier Palm calculators (like the m5xx series).
Additionally, although I didn't see it mentioned anywhere, these same hidden calculators do also exist in the Palm T|X (I know, I tried it on mine)! Please let us know in this forum if they also exist on your Palm model (like the E2?, T5? or LifeDrive?)
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