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- From: Jake-S@cup.portal.com (Jake G Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
- Subject: Re: Programmers Calculator?
- Message-ID: <74427@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 17:20:17 PST
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- Paul Rubin writes:
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- > One thing that would be handy in a programmers calculator would be
- > the ability to display and do arithmetic with IEEE floating point
- > numbers (i.e. convert them to and from bit patterns, and to and from
- > the calculator's floating point format). Anyone working on these
- > packages, please take note.
-
- The conversion between HP48 reals and IEEE floating-point format is indeed
- included in our HP16C Emulator library. These programs were originally
- included as "user-code" programs in the 16C manual and they have been
- converted and built in.
-
- Jake Schwartz
-