CEO of Royal Bank of Scotland uses an HP
#1

In yesterday's Lomdon Evening Standard , there was a picture of Stephen Hester at his desk at RBS on which there was a HP voyager calculator - no doubt a HP12C.


Nigel

#2

Jewelry. I hope he never used it. Think of HP's reputation!

Richard

#3

Ah, the gold standard.

#4

Does the 12c have enough digits to calculate his bonus? ;-)


Regards,

John

#5

Does it have enough digits to calculate the RBS losses?

#6

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Does it have enough digits to calculate the RBS losses?


At 9,999,999,999 - the answer is no !

#7

Sounds like you should re-open the Tower of London.

#8

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At 9,999,999,999 - the answer is no !




At least the 12C can be used to display the number of Lehman Brothers options owned by RBS (approx.)
#9

Oh he used engineering notation.

#10

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Oh he used engineering notation.

... provided he knows the meaning of this.


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