Voyager design history?

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(10-19-2024 10:04 PM)Steve Simpkin Wrote:  As a consultant, Professor William Kahan assisted Hewlett Packard with the mathematical functions of a number of its calculators over the years.

I'll make a wild guess that he was the author of the "Accuracy of Numerical Calculations" appendix in the Advanced Functions Handbook. That part feels like it was written by a different author than the other parts.

Quote:More about the work Professor Kahan did concerning the HP-15C and why HP did not sell as many of them as it could have is in the following 2005 oral history.

Interesting, though I doubt that this scarcity persisted over the whole time the 15C was sold. So here's a personal piece of information: I know I bought my 15C sometime in 1987/88 (in a store either in Middlesboro, KY or Knoxville, TN). Yet it has a 2518Axxx serial number. So it sat on a shelf for two years. That doesn't sound like the market was starved, although a single datapoint doesn't prove much, of course.