(28/48/50) Dual Number Functions

[DavidM]

(02-20-2024 10:17 AM)Gil Wrote:  And welcome, as new HP50G programs seem not to have (any more?) the real favour of the HP community.

I don't think this is accurate. It seems to me that there are a handful of vocal members here at the hpmuseum who seem to enjoy disparaging the RPL calculators, and I'd even go so far as to say that there has been some small amount of "chilling effect" regarding participation in RPL-related threads as a result. But I don't believe that should be interpreted as a consensus of the community's appreciation for those systems.

Case in point: Eddie Shore recently posted a poll regarding preferred systems for "quick number crunching", and the RPL systems were well-represented in the results.

Personally, I find threads like this one intriguing. I just lack the mathematical background to make practical use of the concepts. I'd enjoy participating in an effort to implement these commands in SysRPL, though (time permitting). Certain characteristics of the 49g-50g SysRPL environment are a good fit for this kind of application. In particular, I'd like to better understand the implications of function overloading for exact integers here vs. extended reals.