About translation...

[J-F Garnier]

I was reading my french HP-42S owner manual to get some special information on memory usage with matrices, and I came accross a section (on p.270) about the best way to add a scalar to a matrix to preserve memory, with this sentence:
"... placez le scalaire dans le registre X. Puis, lorsque vous executerez [+], le scalaire (plus économe en mémoire) sera stocké dans le registre X et non dans la matrice".
that I can translate back to English as:
"... put the scalar in the X-register. Then when you execute [+], the scalar (which uses less memory) gets saved in the X-register rather than in the matrix"
I stared at this sentence for a while, then go back to the English edition and read:
"... put the scalar in the X-register. Then when you execute [+], the scalar (which uses less memory) gets saved in the LAST X register rather than the matrix"

traduttore, traditore.

J-F
[My french manual is ed.1, Juin 1988. Is there a newer, corrected french edition?]

[Massimo Gnerucci]

(06-01-2020 03:24 PM)J-F Garnier Wrote:  "... put the scalar in the X-register. Then when you execute [+], the scalar (which uses less memory) gets saved in the LAST X register rather than the matrix"

traduttore, traditore.

LAST lost in translation. ;)

[Harald]

There is a similar mistake in the German 32s manual. For the the m display test it asks to press "every" key 8 times. Which is incorrectly translated from "any" key

[toml_12953]

(06-03-2020 09:16 PM)Harald Wrote:  There is a similar mistake in the German 32s manual. For the the m display test it asks to press "every" key 8 times. Which is incorrectly translated from "any" key

It would take a while to press EVERY key eight times!