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From: akcs.spicer@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Scott Spicer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Re: HP-32S II Curiosity
Keywords: fractions,bug,HP-32
Message-ID: <281d2aa8:2620.10comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP>
Date: 30 Apr 91 08:40:04 GMT
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Andrey Dolgachev (akcs.falco@hpcvbbs.UUCP) writes:
> All [the Casio] does is convert fractiosn to decimals (ooh!) and
> show the fractions with that annoying symbol thing.
 
I don't have a Casio, but I know for sure that TI had a calculator out
at least 4 or 5 yrs. ago that converted back and forth from fractions
to decimals and vice versa, called TI College Scientific if memory
serves me correctly. They also marketed a special calculator (and
still do, I think) called Math Explorer to grade schools which had
similary abilities to manipulate fractions.  Sooooo, I hate to say
it but unfortunately it looks as though Mr. Laird Popkin is right,
maybe it means something that some other companies had fractions years
before HP did, and there's no use bemoaning the fact that HP came
last at the finish line in the race to add fractions.  I'm not sure
I'd completely agree with the "HP makes it better" claim when it comes
to PC's, laptops, and palmtops.  Better calculators maybe, but PC's?
C'mon gimme a break!
 
       \\\\Scott\\\\