HP-12C / HP-12CP CPU stress test using date operation

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(10-20-2023 08:13 PM)Peter Klein Wrote:  Go to the zoo. Feed the calculator to a hippopotamus. Retrieve it later, clean and retest. An original 12c passed this test. Will the 12c Platinum?
;-)

See the bottom item under “Features,” here:
https://www.hpmuseum.org/hp12c.htm

Thanks for your suggestion but I don't believe in that story. A zookeeper using the 12C Financial calculator to do elementary school math... No thanks ?

BTW, while hippopotamus are mainly herbivore, they have been seen eating dead animals. So their digestive fluid is pretty powerful, I doubt that a consumer electronic item like the 12C would survive the journey without being crushed or melted.