dove@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Ray Rischpater) (05/26/90)
I'm planning on getting a HP48SX this summer. A fellow student was asking me just how fast it actually runs. Now, I've read the postings here; but 3-4 times as fast as a 28S (which I have) isn't very meaningful to someone who doesn't have one. I was wondering if anyone subjected their 48SX to any of the benchmarks more familiar to PC's -- the sieve or dhrystone tests. I'd do it, but I don't have a 48SX. Anybody up to doing it and posting the results? I have the C code available for either of those, if that would help. Also, just how good is the 48SX at symbolic integration? I've seen it and played with the EquationWriter (three cheers for HP), but yet to see an evaluation of it's capabilities in that regard. What sort of integrals can't it do (that we can, by hand...) It'd be nice (if wishful thinking) if it could be programmed to do symbolic Fourier transforms. Thanks for the info. dove@ucscb.ucsc.edu Ray Rischpater