29 May
2010
29 May
'10
1:03 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
My Sharp EL-W521 scientific seems to default to fractions, and yeah it
does sem to handle them exactly AFAICT. Even has a key to cycle between
proper fraction, vulgar fraction and decimal fraction e.g.
3/2 = 1 1/2 = 3/2 = 1.5
Phill.
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Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !
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On 29 May 2010
at 7:28, dwight elvey wrote:
Does anyone still make a calculator that works in fractions (ratios)
instead of decimals? There used to be one, mostly intended for
carpenters.
Based on the behaviour of its predecessor, I think the HP50g does (and it
hadnles them exactly, not as decimal approxiamtions which are converted
back to fractions fo the display).