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From: bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: My HP-48SX is in a WEIRD mode (at least to me! :-)
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Date: 14 Oct 90 05:11:41 GMT
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In article <1990Oct8.022002.3894@jafus.mi.org> eddy@jafus.mi.org (Eddy J. Gurney) writes:

 > 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.

Here's another little curiosity:

	'4/(4*X)' COLCT --> 'INV(X)'

	'A/(A*X)' COLCT --> '1/X'