Casio’s blunder? Or not?

[Thomas Klemm]

(06-09-2024 07:12 PM)xerxes Wrote:  2^33 gives 8589934589

(08-13-2018 03:58 PM)Thomas Klemm Wrote:  So I tried to maximise the duration by using \(2^{33}=8,589,934,592\) but was slightly disappointed by the result:
Only disk 5?
Whereas I've expected 34.

Turned out the given result was \(8,589,934,605\) which is off by \(13\).
So I've entered the correct value manually.

Thus, in the years since the advent of the HP-25 they managed to bring the error down to 3.