wscott@EN.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Wayne H Scott) (03/21/90)
I was glad to discover today that the stoage arithmetic commands (STO+ STO*
SNEG ...) on the HP48 work the why I kept wishing they did on the HP28.
Those commands now work when using local variables.
Let me use the following program as an example:
<< -> a << 'a' 5 STO+ a >> >>
This doesn't do anything useful ( it adds 5 to a number on the stack) but it
does demostrate that STO+ works for local variables. This program generates
an error on a HP28.
In addition HP has included two more commands INCR and DECR which increment
and decrement a varaible.
Why this might seem to be a trivial difference it simplifies many common
programming statments.
Another command that I like is the ->Q function. (convert to fraction)
If given a algebraic it converts every number in the equation to a fraction!
Just felt like babbling. Thanks.
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