Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!sharkey!jafus!eddy From: eddy@jafus.mi.org (Eddy J. Gurney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: My HP-48SX is in a WEIRD mode (at least to me! :-) Summary: ->Q returns '1/(3)' Keywords: Parenthesis around denominator Message-ID: <1990Oct8.022002.3894@jafus.mi.org> Date: 8 Oct 90 02:20:02 GMT Sender: eddy@jafus.mi.org (Eddy J. Gurney) Organization: Eccentricity Technologies - East Lansing, MI Lines: 36 O.K., here's a weird problem for you. (Let's put it this way, I don't know how it happened, and I've never seen it before. But I will admit I _haven't_ read the manuals from cover-to-cover-to-air-to-cover-to- cover (8-), but I have read them a LITTLE bit...) I went to use my 48 today to do some homework, and I went to convert a number I just calculated on the stack to a fraction. I hit [Orange][Eval], and I got a result like this: '20/(3)'. What? Why did it have ()'s in it? I've never seen _that_ before. I just ignored it for the time, and went on. Just a few minutes ago, I was typing in an equation, and I hit the [Division-symbol] key. Know what it did? It put a '/()' into my equation!! Totally weird! I did a 'RCLF' on my HP, and got a REALLY strange answer, especially when I compared it to my roommate's 48: (Which doesn't exhibit this behavior) My roommates 48: { # 112d # 0 d } My 48: { # 9259401383629620208d # 11529215046068469760d } (!!!!) I went through and did a 'FC?' on most of the flags from -1 to -64, and they appeared to match the defaults listed in the Quick Reference Guide! I was about to try doing a 'STOF' with my roommate's values and see what happens, but I'll wait a day and see if anyone on the net has a better idea... Calculating in the twilight zone... E.J.G. -- Eddy J. Gurney N8FPW <17158EJG@MSU.BITNET> (Preferred) (If your mail bounces) (If you HAVE to :-)