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From: lishka@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu (a.k.a. Chri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Unit Problems Solved! (Was:Re: Units Problems...
Message-ID: <1990Sep29.143239.20177@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu>
Date: 29 Sep 90 14:32:39 GMT
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mead!johnt@uccba.uc.edu (John Townsend) writes:
>This reminds me of when I first got my HP-28C when I was in college.  The first
>thing I did with it was "acid-test" it by calculating the cube root of -27.
>[...]  Well, my $200 28C coughed out "(1.5,2.59807621135)".
>"Bug!!!", I screamed.
>[...]
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Hmmm...interesting.  When I type "-27 3 x\/Y" (where the last bit is
"take the x root of y") my HP48sx returns -3, which is the answer one
would expect (although there are two other complex answers, as was
pointed out by the above posting).

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