Allow me one question? Message #6 Posted by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) on 15 Apr 2005, 11:45 p.m., in response to message #5 by megarat
Hi, megarat.
I'm curious: knowing that the HP16C allows some 10-digit mantissa, two-digit exponent floating point operations (+, -, ×, ÷, square root and reciprocal), can I ask you what are the ones you need other than these? Please, understand that this is just curiosity of mine. I own an HP16C and I use it anytime I need to deal with digital design. I also use either the HP42S or any RPL-based (HP48 and/or 49), but I take the HP16C as better that these ones when memory is not an issue. I also wrote some programs that allow the HP41 to get closer to the HP16C, except for the fact it is limited to 32-bit word size. But I do not use the HP16C so often for floating point operations. That's why I'm curious: any particular field?
Please, forgive me asking about this, if there's some particular point that should not be mentioned, I'll gladly accept a non-straight answer.
cheers.
Luiz (Brazil)
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