HP Prime: a student's view

[Liam Hays]

(09-04-2021 05:45 AM)Tim Wessman Wrote:  

(09-04-2021 01:30 AM)Liam Hays Wrote:  Who is "jte"? What am I missing here? If the name is someone's initials, it doesn't ring any bells in my limited knowledge of HP's calculator teams.

Lol. Very nice then.

Quote:I love the plot gallery---do you think you could add Tupper's self-referential formula?

"The formula was defined by Jeff Tupper and appears as an example in Tupper's 2001 SIGGRAPH paper on reliable two-dimensional computer graphing algorithms.[1] This paper discusses methods related to the GrafEq formula-graphing program developed by Tupper.[2]"

I see.

That actually explains a lot, now that I look at it. The Wikipedia article references and discusses GrafEq, which explains the "©2017 PedagoguerySoftwareInc www.peda.com" banner that Advanced Graphing's Plot view displays after a warmstart. I had been wondering about this for a while.

ramon_ea1gth Wrote:By chance, I am reading again the book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where a starship is powered by the "infinite improbability drive" and crazy improbable things happen. After reading these posts, I wonder if this technology is embedded in the Prime (not yet documented) and it's been used

What the Hitchhiker's Guide doesn't tell you is that Slartibartfast was actually contracted by HP to design Norway, and hiring the mice for construction was just part of the deal.