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Little explorations with HP calculators (no Prime)
12-19-2017, 09:27 PM (This post was last modified: 12-19-2017 10:38 PM by DavidM.)
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RE: Little explorations with HP calculators (no Prime)
(12-19-2017 09:15 PM)pier4r Wrote:  Another observation. In my data collection I observed that two lists of the same length, 193 elements, both holding reals, have two different sizes . One list has values between 0 and 4 (integers expressed as reals) and uses less than 500 bytes.
The other holds integers expressed as reals from 0 to 520 and uses more than 2000 bytes.

Some reals are built-in to ROM (as are some exact integers), and are usually referenced in a list by their 2.5 byte address instead of the actual raw data (which consumes 10.5 bytes). In particular, all integer reals in the range -9..35 can be referenced this way. There's others, too, but that should give you some idea of where the size differences come from.
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