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From: billw@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM (Bill Wickes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Comma seperators on 28s?
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Date: 27 Nov 89 19:58:14 GMT
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There is no hidden "show-digit-separators" capability on the 28.

Because of the 28's free-form command line entry, complete with
cursor moves, and because (for example) SIN(123,456) is ambiguous--is
it SIN(123456) or SIN(123+456i)?--the calculator can not handle
digit separators in entry.  It could display separators when numbers
are displayed on the stack (although there are certain messy
issues about complex numbers and arrays).  But the genereal philosphy
on the 28 is "don't show anything you can't key in as shown," so
the display digit separators were not implemented.

Bill Wickes