On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 at 11.05.59 -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Sidney Cammeresi wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 at 01.35.03 -0500, Chuck Cole wrote: > > > Several kinds of applications require more than 8 digit > > > precision. HP calculators are the only ones that have at least 10 > > > digits of precision throughout. We could not use TI scientific > > > calculators except as slide rule replacements because of their 8 > > > digit limited precision. Discovering that 8 digits was not enough > > > at all in these applications made a deep impression on me. > > > > Ten digits on a slide rule? How exactly does that work? Given that a > > He was only saying that 8-digits is enough for "slide rule replacement", Ahh, misunderstood that. > I would like to hear from Chuck what he was doing that required 10 > digits instead of 8 digits. That's pretty interesting. I'd also > wonder about My wild guess is rocket science. -- Sidney CAMMERESI http://www.cheesecake.org/sac/