HP-35’s x^y Why?

[Guenter Schink]

(11-04-2021 09:15 PM)Jeff O. Wrote:  

(10-30-2021 06:33 PM)Matt Agajanian Wrote:  Hi all.

Yeah, all it takes is an x<>y press before the x^y key. So what was the reasoning for the 35’s x^y instead?

Thanks

I thought that I read somewhere that this was due to the lack of a 10^x function on the 35.

At a place very very close