04-04-2014, 07:18 AM
04-04-2014, 07:32 AM
For Polish sausages, I prefer infix
04-04-2014, 07:58 AM
04-04-2014, 08:08 AM
(04-04-2014 07:18 AM)Roger Ward Wrote: [ -> ]Small RPN and HP article from the Babbage blog on the Economist.com website
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2...e-engine-1
Thank you.
Quote:The sausage conundrum is something only mathematicians, programmers, engineers and financial planners of a certain age could love[emphasis added]
Alas...
04-04-2014, 08:10 AM
So…which HP is the man in the picture using?
04-04-2014, 08:32 AM
(04-04-2014 08:10 AM)[kby] Wrote: [ -> ]So…which HP is the man in the picture using?
The picture is pretty low res but I think it may be a HP-65.
04-04-2014, 08:50 AM
That's obviously an HP-35.
04-04-2014, 01:12 PM
04-04-2014, 03:30 PM
"In RPN, the expression is read unambiguously as 234*+123*+/."
This doesn't make any sense to me... Are blank spaces any expensive?
This doesn't make any sense to me... Are blank spaces any expensive?
04-04-2014, 05:07 PM
It's not a -65…lower right key on a -65 is R/S and it's black. I thought maybe a -67 (of course the guy's thumb covers where the card slot would be) but it doesn't have a light colored upper right corner key (neither does the -65). The only ones that have a light colored upper right corner key are a -35 and a -45, as far as I can tell. I would not have guessed them initially since I'd expect the case to look darker (they are both black), but I'm having to lean toward the -35, as it also looks like there are key legends above he function keys.-kby
04-04-2014, 07:09 PM
(04-04-2014 07:18 AM)Roger Ward Wrote: [ -> ]Small RPN and HP article from the Babbage blog on the Economist.com website
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2...e-engine-1
(04-04-2014 07:58 AM)Thomas Klemm Wrote: [ -> ]
xkcd
LOL
04-04-2014, 07:34 PM
Thanx for the story. Great read. Perhaps some of you remember this one:
Dented and duct-taped, old HP calculators still beloved by planners
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/art...-77137179/
Dented and duct-taped, old HP calculators still beloved by planners
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/art...-77137179/
04-04-2014, 09:18 PM
Methinks the picture is an HP 35
04-04-2014, 10:02 PM
(04-04-2014 09:18 PM)Gene Wrote: [ -> ]Methinks the picture is an HP 35HP-35 Version B, and the display shows 11.9547 -99
http://h20331.www2.hp.com/Hpsub/images/35_eng_gray.jpg
04-04-2014, 10:11 PM
Thanks; I did think it looked a lot like an HP publicity photo.
04-04-2014, 10:21 PM
(04-04-2014 10:11 PM)[kby] Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks; I did think it looked a lot like an HP publicity photo.You're welcome!
https://www.google.com/search?q=HP-35&es...l&imgdii=_
Scroll down to the next row then click on the blond lady holding a 35 :-)
04-10-2014, 06:39 PM
How many days of live has that RPN left?
04-10-2014, 06:48 PM
(04-04-2014 10:21 PM)Gerson W. Barbosa Wrote: [ -> ](04-04-2014 10:11 PM)[kby] Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks; I did think it looked a lot like an HP publicity photo.You're welcome!
https://www.google.com/search?q=HP-35&es...l&imgdii=_
Scroll down to the next row then click on the blond lady holding a 35 :-)
If, after you click on that pic, you scroll through the other pics, you'll come across this:
How the HP35 Calculator Killed the Slide Rule and Made an IT Giant
http://mobile.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and...nt-773270/