Equate 1.10

About…

Information about Equate and registration.

Options…

Set the application options. The Home Group should be set to your favorite group to display. The Quick Group should be set to a group that you need frequent but less predictable access to. If Play Sounds is ON, Equate will play a sound when an addition to an equation is rejected. The Reinstall button will recreate the default equations.

Beam…

Beam Equate or the current equation group to another device.

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Equation Tool…

Operate on individual equations. Choose the action and specify the group and equation to act on, then press the Ok button. The Use action inserts any function (even hidden ones) into equations.

Group Tool…

Operate on equation groups. Choose the action and specify the group to act on, then press the Ok button.

Graph, Solve, Iterate, IterateN

Using these commands you can graph, solve, or iterate the current equation. Iterate will use the currently displayed result as input to your equation and Solve uses the current result as a starting point (falling back to zero if none is found from there). All these operations require that the current equation have exactly one unknown. Within the graph display you can also solve, probe, and change the graph bounds. See RPN's documentation since the functionality is almost identical: (tools, bounds, solving)

Quick Group

The Quick Group button allows you access to equations without switching to that group.

Home

The home button displays your the equation group you defined as your Home Group in the Preference Panel.

Name

Here you can choose a name for an unknown in your equation. There are quick buttons for some common names at the top.

Format

Here you can set formatting options for the display of numbers.

History

There is a history list for results and for equations. Tap the history buttons to the right of the equation and result areas to reuse previous values.

You program Equate by saving newly created equations using the "Equations..." menu. Equations and Groups whose names begin with an '_' are invisible. There is no way to access an invisible group (so don't create one), but invisible equations are useful for hiding utility equations that you may reference from more than one equation.

If you'd like to distribute your created equations, just hotsync your Palm OS device and distribute the file called Yequ_GroupName.pdb found in the backup directory on your desktop.