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[Valentin Albillo]

(06-09-2023 11:29 PM)Steve Simpkin Wrote:  [quote='Steve Simpkin' pid='173745' dateline='1686273733']
[...]
08 STO+ 00
09 1
10 STO+ 01
11 7200
[...]
It took my HP 35S 138 seconds to reach a count of 720. So the full count of 7200 for this test would take approximately 1380 seconds or about 23 minutes to complete. [...]

The HP35S treats literal constants in programs as equations, which are parsed anew every time they're encountered while running the loop, which will be slow as molasses. Simply store them constants in, say, register 05 and 06 before running the test and change the program steps to 09 RCL 05 and 11 RCL 06 and the test should run appreciably faster.

You know, this is but one more "endearing feature", among many other such imbecilities. A very very flawed calc which could and should have been awesome

V.