Sean Breheny wrote:

> Hehehe, I loved the wonderful mystery of what all those "special"
> buttons did, like SIN, COS, LOG, 10^x, SUM, etc.

yeah :)


> some concept of finite precision :) I also found some calculators
> which, when they gave you an overflow error, would allow you to clear
> it and continue with the calculation, seemingly with reduced accuracy.

yep, true. just press "C/CE" once and you can go on.

My 1st one was the "Datamat" IIRC, by TI... say, 1974-5 ?

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