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The 12cp is very similar to the 12c, and not just in it's layout. I have always seen the platinum version reffered to as a reimplementation, rather than a redesign. Does anybody have a source for the extent of the design changes made to produce the platinum? |
The 12cp is very similar to the 12c, and not just in it's layout. I have always seen the platinum version reffered to as a reimplementation, rather than a redesign. Does anybody have a source for the extent of the design changes made to produce the platinum? |
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Hello, when the article states "Its popularity has endured despite the fact that even a relatively simple, but iterative, process such as amortizing the interest over the life of a loan--a calculation which modern spreadsheets can complete almost instantly--can take over a minute with the HP-12C." It should be pointed out that the HP-12c Platinum is really quite a lot faster then the original HP-12c and certainly no longer takes a minute to compute things with a lot of iterations such as amortizing interest or calculating IRR. |
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== Lot o' Crap == |
== Lot o' Crap == |
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Revision as of 09:22, 12 December 2008
hard coded delay
HP's market research found the users did not trust results obtained so quickly and so its engineers have introduced some delay in the code.[citation needed]
I put it back because it's a good story (but of course wikipedia isn't here to propagate urban legends), and the template:fact tag is here to take it with a grain of salt, and asks for verification. --Marc Lacoste 09:40, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- That's fine; I remember reading it somewhere, but haven't been able to find it again. Maybe someone else will have better luck. Tom Harrison Talk 13:43, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- I found this calculator.org page, but it isn't authoritative
"redesigned from scratch"
The 12cp is very similar to the 12c, and not just in it's layout. I have always seen the platinum version reffered to as a reimplementation, rather than a redesign. Does anybody have a source for the extent of the design changes made to produce the platinum?
Hello, when the article states "Its popularity has endured despite the fact that even a relatively simple, but iterative, process such as amortizing the interest over the life of a loan--a calculation which modern spreadsheets can complete almost instantly--can take over a minute with the HP-12C." It should be pointed out that the HP-12c Platinum is really quite a lot faster then the original HP-12c and certainly no longer takes a minute to compute things with a lot of iterations such as amortizing interest or calculating IRR.
--Luke
Lot o' Crap
"People have been known to take an HP-12C into a mortgage-broker's office and tell the broker the monthly payments on a proposed loan, well before the banker could compute the number, because most bankers had to look up a number in a thick book of mortgage tables, while this calculator could compute it directly."
This is pure Urban Legend.
Also, the HP-12C is NOT known as the Papal calculator. Just making it up as you go along are we? 209.29.88.44 (talk) 13:16, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
Well, I confess to using mine in the car dealership with the leasing officer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.203.19.203 (talk) 20:20, 14 December 2007 (UTC)