6 Jan
2014
6 Jan
'14
1:49 a.m.
On 01/05/2014 12:40 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
Yes (if I understnad what you are asking for). The RPL
machines
(HP28,48,49,50) have an arbitrarily large stack, limited only by
avaialble memeory. And an empty stack is just that, it is not full of
zeors. So stack underflow (or 'Too few arguments;) is an error.
That's it--I've been tripped up more than once by either leaving
something on that stack that I shouldn't, or taking too much off of it.
I just tried this not only on my HP-16C, but also my wife's HP-15C.
both Voyagers. Same result--stack underflow just repeats the last value
"popped" from the stack. A shame that there weren't a few dots or a
digit on the display that indicated what's on the stack (or not on it).
While I use my calculator for a lot of quick-and-dirty tasks, I almost
never use its programmable feature. There are computers all over the
place for that.
--Chuck