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HP-65 trivia
02-20-2015, 07:47 PM
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RE: HP-65 trivia
(02-20-2015 06:56 PM)Tugdual Wrote:  
Quote:As an additional feature, the "octal to decimal" conversion will accept non-octal arguments containing the digits 8 or 9. A non-octal number such as 998 will be interpreted as (9x82) + (9x8) + 8 = 656.
I would have expected 1220.

Seriously, this is a bit misleading, probably the reason why later on the 35s the use of a suffix like 'h' or 'o' was made mandatory to the detriment of a certain ease of use. I remember the prime was also quite painful. I wish I had had a 16c.

The 41C had the same OCT and DEC feature but, at least, handles exceptions and throws a DATA ERROR.

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HP-65 trivia - Don Shepherd - 02-20-2015, 01:48 PM
RE: HP-65 trivia - Gene - 02-20-2015, 02:17 PM
RE: HP-65 trivia - Don Shepherd - 02-20-2015, 03:34 PM
RE: HP-65 trivia - Gerson W. Barbosa - 02-20-2015, 05:35 PM
RE: HP-65 trivia - Don Shepherd - 02-20-2015, 06:02 PM
RE: HP-65 trivia - Thomas Radtke - 02-20-2015, 06:52 PM
RE: HP-65 trivia - Don Shepherd - 02-20-2015, 07:14 PM
RE: HP-65 trivia - Tugdual - 02-20-2015, 06:56 PM
RE: HP-65 trivia - Massimo Gnerucci - 02-20-2015 07:47 PM
RE: HP-65 trivia - Tugdual - 02-20-2015, 07:43 PM
RE: HP-65 trivia - Thomas Klemm - 02-20-2015, 08:09 PM
RE: HP-65 trivia - Tugdual - 02-20-2015, 08:15 PM
RE: HP-65 trivia - Thomas Klemm - 02-20-2015, 09:19 PM



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