Longest computation that your calculator performed for you?

[pier4r]

(03-30-2017 07:30 PM)Garth Wilson Wrote:  I'm not nearly as strong in math as some on this forum are, but I can always find a way to brute-force something to get the answers I need.

Same here, but I fail nevertheless . Therefore I try again, and again, and again, and...

Quote:A few years ago I used my HP-71, in BASIC, to generate large look-up tables (most being 65,536 cells each, and 16-bit, meaning 128KB per table) for hyperfast, accurate, 16-bit scaled-integer math, to use as a virtual co-processor for hardware that didn't have a normal co-processor. It took my HP-71 a few weeks to generate the tables and convert to Intel Hex files. I posted them, along with a discussion of the value of scaled-integer math and how to use it effectively, and information on how each table was calculated, on my website, at http://wilsonminesco.com/16bitMathTables/ .

This looks interesting. Is scaled-integer math the same of as (thanks for the correction!) fixed point math? I will check the link, thanks for sharing!