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Frank Boehm (Germany) Offline
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#3
08-29-2008, 06:55 AM

http://www.shorpy.com/node/4327?size=_original

I guess we are lucky to have a result in less than a second!

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John B. Smitherman Offline
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#4
08-29-2008, 09:20 AM

Hi Frank. That's an interesting photo. Try to imagine how many keystrokes and how much time that would have been saved had they been using RPN.

Cheers,

John

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