Re: A whole digit for radix mark Message #5 Posted by Karl Schneider on 28 Aug 2004, 1:36 p.m., in response to message #4 by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil)
Hi, Luiz --
I don't have all the HP models, but of those I do have, only the HP-35 allocates an entire digit position to the radix, and it doesn't show "thousands-separators" (commas in the US).
The HP-34 and all of my non-graphical LCD models have special display positions between digits for the radix and separators. (Radix only on the 34C? -- I can't remember.)
My models with graphics-capable displays (42S, 17BII, 28C, 48G, 49G) use, for the radix, a cluster of four pixels in a solid dot-matrix grid.
The 33S has a 7x5 matrix of pixels for each of 14 digits on two lines, with tiny LCD displays for point/comma. A 2x2 cluster would not be very aesthetically pleasing -- not centered between the digits, excessive space, poorly shaped, etc. This might be better than it is today, though...
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