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RE: The Rogue HP-12c - AnnoyedOne - 09-14-2024 12:26 PM
(09-13-2024 09:30 PM)dm319 Wrote: Being a cheap bastard is better than having a really bad sense humour.
Unfortunately I cannot read the Bloomberg article (no account).
I knew about Mike Lynch's demise from his "yacht" sinking. I didn't know (or forgot) that HP was trying to get US$4 billion from him (or his now estate).
That's a boatload (pun intended) of calculators! Even Brazillian ones at the bottom of the ocean
A1 (aka "that cheap bastard")
PS: Did Lynch use a "Rogue HP-12C" while at Autonomy? Does that explain the "over-valuation" HP is mad about?
RE: The Rogue HP-12c - dm319 - 09-14-2024 01:01 PM
(09-14-2024 12:26 PM)AnnoyedOne Wrote: PS: Did Lynch use a "Rogue HP-12C" while at Autonomy? Does that explain the "over-valuation" HP is mad about?
This thing goes deeper than we ever imagined.
RE: The Rogue HP-12c - dm319 - 09-15-2024 02:54 PM
Thought I would do a little video to demonstrate a few things:
- The comma bug
- IRR example error
- Digit precision
- Divide by zero issue
- A few TVM differences
See here.
A couple of things I haven't done:
- I can't compare on video to an HP-12c. Maybe in retrospect I should have explained what you would have got on the HP-12c, but it is pretty similar behaviour to the HP-12c platinum but returns 10 digits rather than a maximum of 12. I also didn't show you the full 16 digit precision (just 15).
I couple of thoughts - some effort has clearly gone into making this device match an HP-12c - the way the stack lifts for example, and returning only an integer N.
RE: The Rogue HP-12c - AnnoyedOne - 09-15-2024 03:23 PM
(09-15-2024 02:54 PM)dm319 Wrote: Thought I would do a little video to demonstrate...
I watched it. Not sure that counts (except for Ewetoob hits).
Comma bug ==> no "user error". Real.
And we now know your real name. And have heard your Brit accent
I keep my online identity deliberately secret. Decades ago I used my real first name and location on a forum site. Another user tracked down a photo of me (and someone else) that I'd taken with my camera (self-timer). Uploaded to the internet without my knowledge/consent. Not to any social-media site either. A small rarely viewed one.
A1
PS: GCHQ/NSA/etc already know enough about me.
PPS: I created this online pseudonym about 25 years ago. I'm not really "annoyed" but had already created it.
RE: The Rogue HP-12c - dm319 - 09-15-2024 03:41 PM
(09-15-2024 03:23 PM)AnnoyedOne Wrote: I watched it. Not sure that counts (except for Ewetoob hits).
My commiserations for sitting through it! I notice it's on 3 views, so that's you, me and one other (..looking around...).
(09-15-2024 03:23 PM)AnnoyedOne Wrote: PPS: I created this online pseudonym about 25 years ago. I'm not really "annoyed" but had already created it.
I am glad you have mellowed over years. Yes, the gap between by real name and pseudonym has been breached many times already.
RE: The Rogue HP-12c - AnnoyedOne - 09-15-2024 03:51 PM
(09-15-2024 03:41 PM)dm319 Wrote: My commiserations for sitting through it!
None needed. Now I've seen your 12CP as well.
(09-15-2024 03:41 PM)dm319 Wrote: I notice it's on 3 views...
My main browser is very much "secured". Youtube (i.e. Google) recently changed something so now I often have use another (not as secured) one to watch videos. Google still can't learn much about me though.
(09-15-2024 03:41 PM)dm319 Wrote: Yes, the gap between by real name and pseudonym has been breached many times already.
For better or worse I know how such things can be used against you.
A1