Diki was having trouble figuring out what target hex string to use to set up a giving difficulty for shares on his pool so I wrote this little difficulty calculator for him:
bitcoin difficulty calculator
accepts floating poind difficulty or
hexadecimal target in either the long 256 bit form or
the short compressed nBits form and
displays the result in all three formats
download portable C source and linux executable from :
http://www3.telus.net/millerlf/diffcalc.tgzhave fun