HP 35S: Hyperbolics Bug?

[Marcio]

(07-24-2015 03:57 PM)Thomas Klemm Wrote:  

(07-24-2015 01:33 PM)Marcio Wrote:  Would anybody be kind enough as to provide some examples?

SINH 25000 = OVERFLOW --> 1E500
SINH 30000 = OVERFLOW -- >3E499

Quote:What seems to happen when the argument is greater than 29999.999... is that the the mantissa is kept and the characteristic is changed to 499.

I think this one is a bit common. The Prime will output similar results. Powerful computing environments such as MATLAB and others will return 'infinity' as a result, which might be what the 35s is trying to do here.