Re: Users' Program Library Europe
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:41 am
Hi, Mike,
I am sorry -- my meager attempts at humour were perhaps misunderstood. My friends know me to be self-deprecating and always ready to laugh at my own mistakes, hoping to turn the occasion into a positive learning experience. Some people get up-tight when they make a mistake because they are afraid of being criticized. That is not me. I have even made the mistake of assuming that others will laugh with me. Anyway, enough about that.
Thank you very much for the new code. Your revised code is beautiful, elegant even, and very compact. (I suspect you are a professional programmer.) Unfortunately I must have made a mistake entering it into my calculator, despite reviewing it several times. The value calculated for IH is always the same as for HI, and I haven't figured out why yet. I will keep working at it. Your version is much more compact than what I had developed (which solved only the conversion part of the exercise). I suspect that my mistake is similar to what I had done before, not making correct use of the ALPHA-SHIFT symbols listed on the back of the HP41. I had forgotten all about them until it suddenly dawned on me, almost too late.
Thanks again for your help. This has been a great learning experience, and it is not even finished yet!
All the Best,
... Martin
I am sorry -- my meager attempts at humour were perhaps misunderstood. My friends know me to be self-deprecating and always ready to laugh at my own mistakes, hoping to turn the occasion into a positive learning experience. Some people get up-tight when they make a mistake because they are afraid of being criticized. That is not me. I have even made the mistake of assuming that others will laugh with me. Anyway, enough about that.
Thank you very much for the new code. Your revised code is beautiful, elegant even, and very compact. (I suspect you are a professional programmer.) Unfortunately I must have made a mistake entering it into my calculator, despite reviewing it several times. The value calculated for IH is always the same as for HI, and I haven't figured out why yet. I will keep working at it. Your version is much more compact than what I had developed (which solved only the conversion part of the exercise). I suspect that my mistake is similar to what I had done before, not making correct use of the ALPHA-SHIFT symbols listed on the back of the HP41. I had forgotten all about them until it suddenly dawned on me, almost too late.
Thanks again for your help. This has been a great learning experience, and it is not even finished yet!
All the Best,
... Martin