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- Subject: Re: HP calculators and decimal (BCD) floating-point precision...
- From: Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 14:44:13 +0200
2018-06-27 13:33 GMT+02:00 sur-behoffski <sur_behoffski@grouse.com.au>:
> (Replying directly to the list; sorry, as usual, for breaking any
> relevant threads.)
>
> In the distant past, I owned, and loved to use it for many years,
> a HP-29C with *CONTINUOUS MEMORY!!!!* Also, it had 98 steps for
> programming algorithms.
>
> IIRC (but the Web is not backing me up here), there was a second
> "Applications Book" of useful problem and elegant algorithms for
> solutions... authored by William Kahan.
I never knew that one, but I knew and loved
Computational Analysis with the HP 25 Pocket Calculator
by Peter Henrici
