Some dreams come true...

[zeno333]

(12-10-2017 03:29 AM)Joe Horn Wrote:  

(12-10-2017 01:48 AM)zeno333 Wrote:  In the mid 1990s I had a fantasy about an actual physical real scientific calculator that computed to over 30 decimal places...It finally came true with the DM42.

In the mid 1990's, you say? Your dream came true in 1994. The HP 48/49/50 have been able to do that and far more (settable up to 9999 digits!), with the LongFloat library installed, first published in 1994. The HP48 version was fast, but the 50g version is even faster: square root of 153 to 100 digits in less than 0.3 seconds.

"Get serious about precision. Get LongFloat."

True, I have that for my 50G, forgot about that one. Now I can start dreaming about a pocket sized device with the full version of Wolfram's Mathematica on it