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From comp.sys.hp48 Fri Feb 21 19:50:52 1992
Path: seq!ecsgate!mcnc!gatech!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpfcso!hplvec!cook
From: cook@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Steve Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
Subject: Re: Re: Significant Digits -- Here's a program for it
Message-ID: <30800014@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>
Date: 20 Feb 92 00:04:11 GMT
References: <1992Feb16.063324.25327@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
Lines: 12
> That's the entire point, the original poster wanted to know if
> there was a way of getting the HP to keep track of the significant
> digits. To my knowledge (what little there is) I don't think there is
> a pre-programmed way of doing it.
Since I have not paid much attention to this string, I'm not sure that
this is at all in the right direction of the answer being looked for.
The following program was submitted about a year ago to return the
current of number of significant digits (ignore if off base)
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