On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 11:05:59AM -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > I would like to hear from Chuck what he was doing that required 10 digits > instead of 8 digits. That's pretty interesting. I'd also wonder about > internal precision because I believe my old calculator that showed 8 > digits actually had a little more inside I think the old TI calculators had 10 or 12 digits internally but only displayed 8. I never did like the HP calculators - TI was the way for me. I owned a slide rule for many years and may still have one in the garage somewhere... Some people thought I was cheating in high school using a slide rule! Damn I feel old :-) -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program