Kelly J Kohls wrote:
>
>> Hmmm, I am one of those happy peoples who own the old HP 16C
>> programmer's
>> calculator. I am affraid that one day, this calculator will die.  AFAIK,
>> there is no equivalent for this calculator today (with variable word
>> size, rotations, carry, shifts etc. etc.)
>
> I have a Casio CM-100 computer math calculator that provides all of the
> functions you mentioned.
>
> It allows calculations in binary, octal, decimal and hex; and provides
> for word sizes of 1, 4, 8, 16, and 32.  It provides the usual operators
> of not, and, or, and xor.  In addition, it provides rotate, shift,
> arithmetic shift, and signed arithmetic functions.

HP16 will do 1..64 bit integers, either unsigned or 1's or 2's
complement.
Very nice device, fits in shirt pocket (unless a pocket protector and
pens
already there, of course :-))  Uses reverse polish, and I wouldn't touch
any calculator that didn't.

Frank (HP enthousiast)
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