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12-07-2015, 05:53 PM (This post was last modified: 12-07-2015 05:54 PM by Claudio L..)
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(12-05-2015 07:07 PM)luisphysics Wrote:  I notice a lot of people love the 50g. If I had to guess the reason HP didn't just upgrade the 50g hardware and roll over the software, was likely because the firmware/software/hardware are actually one fused unit.

The 50g isn't a fused software/hardware unit. It is nothing but an emulator running an even older platform. Now the emulated platform (Saturn) was very tightly integrated and "maxed-out".

Now regarding the specific unit you want... did know that the 50g has 'c' (speed of light) defined as a unit? So as long as your speed of light is defined as 1_c (as opposed to in m/s), any operation where you use the speed of light will not be numerically replaced, and your results will come out in MeV/c^2 directly.
So yes, the old maxed-out platform was very flexible and worked very well for physics and engineering. No wonder so many people still love it (me included). If you see it as a tool, then a fancy color screen doesn't beat "getting the job done".
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Scientific Specific Units - luisphysics - 12-05-2015, 03:10 AM
RE: Scientific Specific Units - towe - 12-05-2015, 09:23 AM
RE: Scientific Specific Units - DrD - 12-05-2015, 12:14 PM
RE: Scientific Specific Units - towe - 12-06-2015, 10:33 AM
RE: Scientific Specific Units - d b - 12-09-2015, 03:07 AM
RE: Scientific Specific Units - ndzied1 - 12-05-2015, 03:32 PM
RE: Scientific Specific Units - Claudio L. - 12-07-2015 05:53 PM
RE: Scientific Specific Units - ndzied1 - 12-05-2015, 05:39 PM
RE: Scientific Specific Units - hpfx - 12-07-2015, 08:22 AM
RE: Scientific Specific Units - DrD - 12-06-2015, 10:57 AM
RE: Scientific Specific Units - Dirk. - 12-06-2015, 05:08 PM
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RE: Scientific Specific Units - Dirk. - 12-08-2015, 07:16 AM
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