WP 34S and 31S bugs and fixes

[walter b]

(12-08-2014 05:19 PM)Bit Wrote:  This would still allow directly entering e.g. 1e-385 as 0.01e-383, which contradicts the rule "1e-383 is the smallest number that can be entered directly".

Correct. That can be only caught by range checking with the entire input closed. I understood that we can do that spending a few bytes (not that I assess that solution a perfect one - but it looks viable to me under the constraints given).

Alternative 1: we follow Nigel - but we don't have suitable error messages AFAICS. 12e384 returns a "+infinity error" as it should - we don't have a "zero error" taking care of the other end.

Alternative 2: we quietly allow denormalized number entry like 0.01e-383. It's my fault in the doc as admitted above. I should have written "1e-383 is the smallest normalized number that can be entered directly."

d:-/