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HP-35 Bug Question
04-23-2014, 03:58 AM
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RE: HP-35 Bug Question
(04-23-2014 02:51 AM)Katie Wasserman Wrote:  I wonder if any HP (or non-HP) calculator did/does real integer exponentiation, excluding integer modes and CAS modes, of course.
What about calculating (-2)3? There must be a check that the exponent is an integer.

Quote:Assuming that enough guard digits were used you couldn't directly test for this because you'd always get the correct result. However you might be able to infer that the calculator used some fast algorithm for exponentiation by timing how long it took for various integer power calculations.
We can read the source, step through the code with a debugger or analyze the trace.

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HP-35 Bug Question - coloradokings - 04-20-2014, 10:12 PM
RE: HP-35 Bug Question - Katie Wasserman - 04-20-2014, 10:23 PM
RE: HP-35 Bug Question - Gerson W. Barbosa - 04-20-2014, 11:28 PM
RE: HP-35 Bug Question - Joe Horn - 04-21-2014, 10:31 AM
RE: HP-35 Bug Question - Katie Wasserman - 04-23-2014, 02:51 AM
RE: HP-35 Bug Question - Thomas Klemm - 04-23-2014 03:58 AM
RE: HP-35 Bug Question - Thomas Klemm - 04-23-2014, 06:31 AM
RE: HP-35 Bug Question - Paul Dale - 04-23-2014, 07:48 AM
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RE: HP-35 Bug Question - Thomas Klemm - 04-23-2014, 03:39 AM
RE: HP-35 Bug Question - Don Shepherd - 04-20-2014, 10:56 PM
RE: HP-35 Bug Question - coloradokings - 04-20-2014, 11:11 PM
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