HP Calculator Applications in the Workplace

[Thomas Klemm]

(07-12-2014 04:59 PM)Don Shepherd Wrote:  I'm a middle school math teacher and each year I challenge my students to beat me at "the 50 game." This is a game for 2 players. Players take turns choosing a number from 1 to 6 and keeping a running grand total, and the one who is able to hit exactly 50 is the winner.

Do you also play it with multiple heaps? I've just written a program for the HP-42S that lets you play the game with 4 heaps: 1 - 3 - 5 - 7
But it's boring as you always lose.

It might be difficult to do that with the solver of the HP-17B as the XOR function is missing. But I'm sure there's a way to circumvent that hindrance.

Kind regards
Thomas