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From: akcs.egarcia@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Edwin Garcia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Re: HP-32S II Curiosity
Keywords: fractions,bug,HP-32
Message-ID: <2813f262:2620.4comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 91 08:40:06 GMT
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Joe, the intent of my message was not to compare whose "fraction"
mode was better than the other... the gist of it was that the idea
of performing arithmetic on fractional numbers and interconverting
between fractionals and decimals is not novel to Hewlett-Packard;
the idea had existed for many years and was implemented a long time
ago on TI, Sharp, and Casio calculators.  I merely found it somewhat
amusing that there appeared to be a slight bit of excitement over
the introduction of this feature on Hewlett-Packard calculators...
in my opinion HP should have added this feature a long time ago, and
frankly I am puzzled as to why it is being added only now...
Come now, old chap, we must give proper credit to the efforts of our
worthy rivals, even though they still use that bloody algebraic
operating system!  :-)