[HP35S] Disassembling ROM

[Han]

(02-24-2015 04:43 PM)Tugdual Wrote:  I would say for the sake of consistency. The constants are also stored using ASCII because we need to pick a constant on screen and then it is represented as a tiny EQN inside the code.
Also whatever constant is entered manually is the same, a mini ASCII EQN.
Of course this is to the detriment of performance.
I wonder if the whole calculator operates in ASCII, a bit like BCD but ASCII version. That would be pretty unique!

Haven't looked at the ROM a single "bit" but could it be that these are simply the ASCII representations of the constants for... display purposes (and that there is a binary representation elsewhere)?