HPprime CRASH and mysterious clepsydra indicator

[fabrice48]

i found this to CRASH my prime :

try this programm,

1-on the first time wait 20 seconds all is alright.

2-then try to execute it again, during it press the down arrow key

3-the program finish with a result on the screen

4-try to escape with the ESC key

---THE prime CRASH

FROM NOW you see a busy indicator (a clepsydra) each time your prime is busy

EXPORT SPD()

BEGIN

TICKS>T;

FOR I FROM 1 TO 300000 DO

  COS(123156789);

END

TICKS-T>T;

T/1000>T;

PRINT(""+T);

FREEZE;

END;

Edited: 29 Oct 2013, 2:20 p.m. after one or more responses were posted

[Patrice]

Fabrice,

Se planter est traduit en Anglais par to crash.

[fabrice48]

merci patrice !!!

[cyrille de Brébisson]

hello,

thanks for the info.

BTW, did you know about the TIME(expression) command? it will time the execution speed of the command :-)

cyrille