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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Seeking SideKick-/spreadsheet-type functionality for AT&T 3B2
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Date: 31 Oct 90 02:35:57 GMT
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In article <4260@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
> OK...but what's the bc equivalent to <DEC>64<f><WSIZE>564<CHS><HEX>?

obase=16
-564

> Calculator designers work very hard at making their products usable with
> little to no effort. Why reinvent wheels?

I don't know, Jay. Apple worked very hard at making the Macintosh usable
with little to no effort, and I know how much you like it. Of course it was
designed to work in a very constrained environment... but so is the HP-16C.

Basically, the whole point to RPN is that it makes it easier to enter
calculations with the limited display ability of conventional calculators.
HP's latest efforts have abandoned RPN because they now have a big enough
display that algebraic notation is more workable.
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