HP 42s Value Display

[rprosperi]

(10-24-2024 10:08 PM)cylurian Wrote:  True, you can place it in SCI mode, but then when you type a 2, you get 2.000000000000E0, talk about significant digits! I'm so spoiled with those TI calculators!

Yeah, no need to focus on those meaningless digits, no need to think. "Trust us... we know what answers you want to see... you can trust TI...".

If they had the intestinal fortitude to actually document how they changed results to make them "easier to understand" I would have respected TI a lot more. I mean folks that don't care about such details likely weren't reading all the manuals, whereas folks that did care, and could understand, were denied the chance. To this day, I'd guess (but I've spent literally no time checking) that these details remain undocumented.