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RE: Comparing 15c ans 35s - MarkHaysHarris777 - 02-16-2015 01:36 AM

(02-15-2015 07:31 PM)Tugdual Wrote:  My cat has made a choice and the winner is:
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... most accountant cats would choose the 12C ;-)


PS My cat pounces on whatever calc I have out there... if she thinks I want to use it.


RE: Comparing 15c ans 35s - Tugdual - 02-16-2015 08:37 AM

I have to confess one thing... yesterday I have been coding the 15C, was a long time I didn't do that and I found the coding of keys extremely cumbersome. Also when entering whatever constant, I see one line of code sucked for every single digit. I remember when I was a student, I had all constants stored into variables to avoid this. By comparison, the 35s is really another generation and I got used to it very quickly.


RE: Comparing 15c ans 35s - Massimo Gnerucci - 02-16-2015 09:19 AM

(02-16-2015 08:37 AM)Tugdual Wrote:  I have to confess one thing... yesterday I have been coding the 15C, was a long time I didn't do that and I found the coding of keys extremely cumbersome. Also when entering whatever constant, I see one line of code sucked for every single digit. I remember when I was a student, I had all constants stored into variables to avoid this. By comparison, the 35s is really another generation and I got used to it very quickly.

The 41C was already in another class, even before the 15C.


RE: Comparing 15c ans 35s - Sanjeev Visvanatha - 02-17-2015 11:24 PM

If you look at the 15C Advanced Functions Handbook, it at least touches on the subject of the numerical accuracy of the mathematical routines it uses. In fact, I believe there was a chapter devoted to it.

This in my view indicates the level of care and concern the designers had in describing the limitations of the calculations to the owner. I never did get that feeling from the 35S manual.

Mathematics Written in Sand


RE: Comparing 15c ans 35s - walter b - 02-18-2015 07:59 AM

(02-17-2015 11:24 PM)Sanjeev Visvanatha Wrote:  If you look at the 15C Advanced Functions Handbook, it at least touches on the subject of the numerical accuracy of the mathematical routines it uses. In fact, I believe there was a chapter devoted to it.

Please remember that person doen't like reading. He wants to get it pre-chewed by us (like Reader's Digest, in a way).

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RE: Comparing 15c ans 35s - MarkHaysHarris777 - 02-18-2015 08:04 AM

(02-18-2015 07:59 AM)walter b Wrote:  
(02-17-2015 11:24 PM)Sanjeev Visvanatha Wrote:  If you look at the 15C Advanced Functions Handbook, it at least touches on the subject of the numerical accuracy of the mathematical routines it uses. In fact, I believe there was a chapter devoted to it.

Please remember that person doen't like reading. He wants to get it pre-chewed by us (like Reader's Digest, in a way).

Confused

No no no... I loved that article... read the whole darn thing (~very cool). Well, I had to do something while I drank my coffee...

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