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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Re: HP-32S II Curiosity
Keywords: fractions,bug,HP-32
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Date: 26 Apr 91 01:02:02 GMT
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In article <2813bb3e:2620.3comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP> akcs.joehorn@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Joseph K. Horn) writes:
>Edwin Garcia says "[The HP 32SII fraction mode] already existed on many
>other calculators such as Texas Instruments, Casio, Etc."
>
>No way!  That's like saying "Don't get excited about the HP 48SX's
>ability to do unit conversions; Casio's have unit conversions right on
>the keyboard!"
>
>Casio's "a b/c" key is so utterly brain dead compared to the 32SII's
>FDISP mode that the comparison is ludicrous.
>
>And NOBODY else's calculators take a decimal answer and convert it to its
>fractional equivalent.

At least not built in... it's incredibly easy and trivial to do with a short
program.  Knowing HP, however, it's probably an algorithm that's an order of
magnitude faster than anything normally implemented.  I will agree with the
Casio brain dead fractions comment.