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From: woody@nntp-server.caltech.edu (William Edward Woody)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Cute HP48 bug
Message-ID: <1991Jan13.221018.21424@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 13 Jan 91 22:10:18 GMT
References: <1991Jan11.150448@ee.ubc.ca> <37985@cup.portal.com>
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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In article <37985@cup.portal.com> jpser@cup.portal.com (John Paul Serafin) writes:
>For additional amusement try
>101_34 (enter) 
>and see: 3434
>any x_y where x and y may be each be any sequence of digits
>interpretable as real numbers.  x may be negative, y may not
>have a negative sign.


Well, it may be an unexpected result, but I can see the logic behind it.
I mean, when you say  '10_ft', what you really mean is 10 * (1 foot),
where '1 foot' is a unit.

Thus, when you say '3_4' do you mean 3 * (4), where '4' is a "unitless unit?"
My experiments with this is when you say 'x_y', what you get is x*y.
This seems to work for any object x, when y is a positive real number.
Or at least for all the objects I've tried it with...

Curioser and Curioser...  A calculator with bugs!  (BTW, I have revision 'C'
ROMs...)
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