Article - 42.86% responded “Yes” on an opinion poll. How many people responded?

[Joe Horn]

(03-21-2017 03:43 PM)Vtile Wrote:  The answer is

Quote:0.4286 Enter XQ Enter

sry. I couldn't resist. The article is a good read.

Thank you.

The Joe Horns article is on article section of the forums with real answers.
http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-7984.html

When I type 0.4286 XQ on my 50g I get 2143/5000, which is not the answer sought by the article. Perhaps you have your machine in 2FIX or 4FIX mode? I keep mine in STD mode. Regardless, the XQ function only uses the simple continued fraction algorithm, which fails to obtain the best solution much of the time, as explained in the PDQ Algorithm posting.