WP 34S mini-challenge

[Dieter]

(01-21-2014 11:48 AM)Paul Dale Wrote:  The divide by two is what is stumping me. x² RCL+L 2 ÷ is the obvious solution but it doesn't preserve the stack and saving the stack consumes more steps than are available.
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Likewise my proposal to include arithmetic operators with a small constant argument was vetoed, otherwise the space & stack saving ÷2 instruction would have been available.

What? Who vetoed against this? Some time ago I suggested a simple instruction that might have been called HALF or something similar. If possible it should take a register address, so that here a HALF X would have done the trick. The main reason why it did not get implemented was the lack of available memory. Now I hear that such an instruction would have been possible. ?!?

Dieter