Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!dan
From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: HP-32S II Curiosity
Keywords: fractions,bug,HP-32
Message-ID: <51123@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 3 Apr 91 16:07:19 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
Lines: 28

Well, with Jake's recent review of the HP-32S II, I could not resist and
so I went out and bought my 14th (!) HP calculator, an HP-32S II.  Now,
I already had the HP-32S, but the model II is pretty slick.  It is an
excellent size and has the best display of any HP calculator made!  The
numbers are very large and readable.

With its newer Solver function, the 32S is quite a handy little machine.
Of course, just like UNITS make a case for buying an HP-48, fractions
make the case for the 32S II.

Well, inside my manual is a single slip of paper called UPDATE which
says the following:

	Do not set flag 9 to display fractions in the "fixed
	demoninator" mode.  This mode, described in chapter 5,
	"Fractions", does not work correctly.

Strangely enough, I HAVE set flag 9 and it SEEMS to work as advertised.
So the question is, what is wrong with this mode?  Anyone know?

What this mode does is allow a fixed denominator to be input, like 60,
and all fractions will be displayed as n/60.

Anyway, the 32S II looks like it will hold me for a few weeks until the
95LX is supposed to be released.

Dan Allen
Apple Computer