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  Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2011-09-08 14:10 +0000

#3571 — Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem!

Terje Mathisen wrote:
> Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 14:08:23 +0200
>> Morten Reistad<first@last.name>  wrote:
>>
>>> The critical year for the calculator was 1979, that is when it hit
>>
>>     That sounds too late, I started senior school in 1970 using slide
>> rules. By about 1974 enough of the class had calculators that they were
>> allowed to be used in the daily slide rule drills. Those using calculators
>> usually took longer and produced more wrong answers than those with slide
>> rules.
>>
>>     I'd put the critical year at 1975, (Sinclair put out the Cambridge
>> in 1973 for about £40 dropping to about £30 quite quickly) by 1975
>> calculators had pretty much completely supplanted slide rules in schools
>> although I stuck with my 10" British Thornton until 1976 when I got a CBM
>> SR4190 (90 function scientific cost about £50). I still have the slide
rule
>> (in perfect order) but that calculator is long since dead and gone.
>>
>
> I still have my TI SR50A, from around 1975.
>
> I had to replacethe (rechargeable) battery pack with 3 (or 4?) AA cells,
> but otherwise it still workedthe last time I checked.

I have various flavors of calculators and swore a blue streak
whenever I had to use one.  This would occur when my HP-11C's
battery dies.  Noone is allowed to touch my HP-11C.

/BAH

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