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From: billw@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM (William C Wickes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP-48 unit quirks
Message-ID: <21580047@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Mar 90 18:44:31 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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	>Complex numbers and unit objects don't mix.
*Life is short and ROM is full.

	>UFACT doesn't handle prefixed units properly.  E.g., factoring
	>1_m into a unit expression will factor out all the occurences
	>of lengths, but factoring 1_mm will only factor one.

*I don't understand.  Can you give an example of what the 48 does and
what you expect it to do?