Thoughts on early HP and early TI accuracy Message #6 Posted by rsenzer on 15 Apr 2004, 2:03 p.m., in response to message #5 by Garth Wilson
In fact, even with some of their algorithm flaws, many of the early TIs had significantly more accuracy than the comparable HPs. For years, HP produced brochures criticizing TI for its algorithms, but really didn't produce a calculator with comparable accuracy until the "BASIC' calculator/computers and later series were released with 12 digit computation.
You can still see that old TI level of accuracy in the BAIIPlus. Unfortunately, TI has used inferior algorithms, chips, and/or software in many of their models such as its current crop of non-graphing scientific calculators. Similarly for their original LED TI-30 and related models. The SR-51-II from that vintage has excellent accuracy, but the later TI-5X series were disasters.
Edited: 15 Apr 2004, 2:04 p.m.
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