DeltaX
- Description
- Measurement report processing
- Project type
- Personal — open source / freeware
- Start date
- January of 2015
- End date
- March of 2015
- Project URL
- https://github.com/K0V0/deltax-android
- Skills
About project
DeltaX is an application for the statistical processing of results from laboratory measurements, or from any measurements where the same parameter or quantity is measured repeatedly in order to reach the highest possible accuracy.
Motivation:
- Saving time - taking the routine, monotonous work of tapping x numbers into a calculator over and over off a person's hands
- Eliminating human error
- When tapping values into a calculator repeatedly
- When re-entering rounded values from the previous column of the report
The application works with all values through the BigDecimal class, since the way computers store decimal numbers, and the way standard programming languages do arithmetic with them, could in itself lead to significant inaccuracies in a number of cases.
A version for desktop PCs was built as well, written in C++ and the QT4 framework, but I did not feel like carrying on with that one. It is not as good as the Android version, and a phone is something you have to hand in the laboratory much like a calculator