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From: apuzzo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (APUZZO ALFONSO A)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Purpose of 48SX "Solve Equation Library Card"?
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Date: 30 May 90 04:11:24 GMT
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In article <31210027@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM> rayde@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM (ray_depew) writes:
>(Of course, I'm focusing too narrowly on science & engineering here.
>The Card contains nearly every equation used in Halliday & Resnick, but
>it also has a whole raft of financial utilities, and a Multiple Equation
>Solver.)
>
>Plus it has a cool game.
>
>Ray Depew
>HP InkJet Components Operation
>BSChE, MSEE -- boy, I wish I'd had one of these things in school!   
>Just another etc.
>----------

No one (to my meager knowledge) has said anything about complex equation
solving... I know several engineers that are _not_ purchaseing the 48sx
because they don't know if it can find complex roots in a standard sort of
way.

So, does this facility exist in the 48sx or on the eq. card??

thx,

--> Tony <--

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