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From: TCINT020@ysub.ysu.edu (Robert Noe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP48sx weirdness
Message-ID: <90124.160331TCINT020@ysub.ysu.edu>
Date: 4 May 90 20:03:31 GMT
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This has happened to me as well and this is the reason that I came up with
to explain it.

  CAT wont recognize variables that are just numbers as equations.  Since we
are putting just a number on the stack and telling the HP that we want to
plot it they needed some way to notify CAT that it was an equation and not just
any old variable hence the .EQ that gets put at the end of the variable name
that you enter.  I havent found this documented anywhere but thats just what I
think.  Hope this helps or is at least close to correct!


     Bob