+- HP Forums (https://archived.hpcalc.org/museumforum)
+-- Forum: HP Museum Forums (https://archived.hpcalc.org/museumforum/forum-1.html)
+--- Forum: Old HP Forum Archives (https://archived.hpcalc.org/museumforum/forum-2.html)
+--- Thread: 12c...it would have been great if... (/thread-73732.html)
12c...it would have been great if... - Don Shepherd - 05-21-2005
Programming the venerable 12c to do numerical analysis on digits of a number, you must divide by 10, FRAC, and multiply by 10 to get the righmost digit. Wouldn't it have been great if the 12X and 12/ keys could have been customized to be 10X and 10/.
It's too bad we don't have 10 months in a year!
Re: 12c...it would have been great if... - Walter B - 05-21-2005
As long as accountants need 12 months to find out the targets being achieved, as long B-calcs will have those keys. Your task might be solved easier using a HP16C ;-)
Re: 12c...it would have been great if... - bill - 05-21-2005
Weren't there 10 months before Julius and Augustus ;-)
Re: 12c...it would have been great if... - Mike - 05-23-2005
I agree with you and would like to add to your comment. The 12C would have been great if it had a back arrow key. RPN is all about minimizing key strokes, which it does nicely. However, for those of us with fingers that don't quite do what the mind is doing, a back arrow key would definitely help. This becomes very apparent when entering values with 7 numbers and one makes an input error on the seventh digit, ugh!!!