A quick precision test

[Gerson W. Barbosa]

(06-03-2014 11:31 AM)Massimo Gnerucci Wrote:  

(06-03-2014 11:24 AM)walter b Wrote:  Quite natural, isn't it?

d:-)

To us, yes.
Cobol sentence mandatory in every program I wrote...

I must have written no more than half a dozen COBOL programs as a student, but I do remember that sentence (which I liked very much, BTW). Back in the day I would occasionally change the ROM of my MSX computer in order to exchange dots and commas in numeric outputs).

It was a pleasant surprise when I discovered the HP-15C, a replacement to a TI-59, had an equivalent of that built-in (ON/.). I had never bothered about decimal points in my previous calculators, but commas as thousands separators looked quite strange - there ought to have a way to change that. That was the first thing I looked for in the HP-15C manual, I think (no, that was the second, the first one was the whereabouts of a hidden equals key :-)

Cheers,

Gerson.