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Article #130calculators after 1999
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1990 19:00
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1990 19:00
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In article <48...@sugar.hackercorp.com> pe...@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >You're out of step. The TI machines of the day were the 58C and the 59. I had >a 59, and it was much faster than the HP 67 or HP 41 on every benchmark I >tried. I know I did Euclid's algorithm and Newton's method... Did you compare the accuracy of the answers? One of the things you're paying for when you buy from HP is floating-point arithmetic implemented by people who know what they're doing! "Ten correct digits are better than thirteen wrong ones." -- 1972: Saturn V #15 flight-ready| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1990: birds nesting in engines | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry he...@zoo.toronto.edu
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: calculators after 1999 Message-ID: <1990Jan2.190030.28882@utzoo.uucp> Date: 2 Jan 90 19:00:30 GMT References: <1923@paperboy.OSF.ORG> <qtlnvv@unify.uucp> <5784@umd5.umd.edu> <1989Dec14.204421.11808@cs.rochester.edu> <44708@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <1989Dec24.062618.3963@smsc.sony.com> <32434@news.Think.COM> <4867@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 12 Posted: Tue Jan 2 20:00:30 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit