Accurate Normal Distribution for the HP67/97

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(12-15-2018 08:22 PM)Massimo Gnerucci Wrote:  Serendipity.

Almost.

Here (see n1) the first meaning given is An unsought, unintended, and/or unexpected, but fortunate, discovery and/or learning experience that happens by accident..
What I mean is something different.

Example: you know that something in the "working tools" section of the department store will catch your attention, you just don't know which tool. You go there and look around until you find something (if something is there). You don't go looking in the sport section though.

Or: you know that if you go on ebay searching for calculators you may find something, but you don't know precisely if it is a 12c, a 50g, a 48g, a 35, a 35s, a 42s a dm42, a casio (!), a ti (!!), and so on. You search for calculators, not for a random object.

So it is not really an unintended search. The same happens when I look for words in a dictionary or numbers in numerical tables. I am searching for something of that genre, only I cannot define it until I see it.

n1: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/serendipity (wiki wiki wiki!)