I got a HP 17Bii, and I love it!

[jthole]

(12-10-2019 05:41 PM)Dave Britten Wrote:  The 200LX Connectivity Pack includes the same HP Calc application from the Palmtop, and that can solve plenty fast if you run it on modern hardware.

I run the 17Bii simulator from RLM on my iPhone, and that is blazing fast indeed. They should partner with a electronics manufacturer to create a real calculator; it is brilliant.

For fun, I put the equation suggested here (https://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-14...#pid124879) in my 17Bii and in the iPhone simulator. I had already established that 1.000.000 iterations gave a decent approximation of PI (using the iPhone):

1.000.000 runs:
iPhone 7, 17Bii app: ≈ 19 seconds
real 17Bii: interrupted after 7 minutes

1.000 runs:
iPhone 7, 17Bii app: << 1 second
real 17Bii: ≈ 58 seconds

I could have waited over 16 hours for the 1.000.000 runs result