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Ha Ha, boy in hat sound like my son saying Dad "I thought you said calculators are for wimps."
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Thanks for the link!
I think the cartoonist (Bill Amend) probably violated his
NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) with HP by releasing this
information on the HP-16Cs before HP's official announcement.
Perhaps he isn't going into "semi-retirement", maybe HP has
muzzled him!
Ren
dona nobis pacem
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And I'll bet they don't have to put a *b* after the binary zeroes and ones to let the calc know it is binary!!
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Thanks, Bruce! The calc even features a WIDE enter :) And there is another German word merging into American: "über", just without the 2 dots because American typist don't have them, became part of "uber-cool" ;)
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Thanks for providing the link, Bruce. I read the Sunday strip and thought about posting a link, but didn't look it up.
Presumably, Peter will press the two number keys on the three-button binary calc to display "10", not "01"...
Bill Amend has regularly featured modest math and calculation tasks in his Sunday "Fox Trot" comic strips -- none that would challenge us, but are probably unfamiliar to most Americans, alas.
-- KS
Edited: 28 Aug 2007, 4:54 a.m.