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Comment #47258606
I'm not sure how you draw the conclusion that there is no covered app store. Are you sure https://github.com/c3d/db48x/tree/dev/library is not covered, for example? More importantl…
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Comment #47258597
No, I am not ignoring the GPLv3. This is not a license, but a legal notice that residents of these states, by applying the GPL and freely running software that may violate local la…
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Comment #47258548
This is a valid point, and I was aware of it, though the wording was not clear enough. So I clarified in a recent commit. I also added Brazil and New. https://github.com/c3d/db48x/…
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Comment #47258449
Exactly
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Comment #47258440
DB48x certainly has a GitHub site with freely downloadable pieces of software that can run on the calculator. For instance here: https://github.com/c3d/db48x/tree/stable/library So…
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Comment #47254701
DB48x author here. To be fair, the definitions of "operating system", "application" or "user" are so vague that I decided to 1. Not take any risk 2. Take a stand The point is more …
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Comment #42080498
A video explaining the philosophy and technology behind the project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNOA39HnkcM
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Comment #42071268
Sorry about that ;-)
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Comment #42071199
It's a tribute to Hewlett and Packard, but taking the first names, and with the individuals reversed for balance. I do not believe there is any possible infringement on a clearly n…
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Comment #42071196
In theory yes. In practice, the TI 83/84 are probably not beefy enough, and the NumWorks has a keyboard that makes the endeavour really complicated.
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Comment #42071194
There are three floating-point representations: - A variable-precision decimal floating point that uses base-1000 internally with 10 bits for 1000 values instead of 1024, so reduce…
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Comment #42071193
This works with Firefox 132.0, tested on Fedora 41 right now.
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Comment #42071192
This is done on that page, though on some browsers it requires an explicit page reload. This works with Mozilla 132.0, just tested on Fedora 41.
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Comment #42071191
SharedArrayBuffer is necessary to run multiple threads with EmScripten.
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Comment #42071188
Could you open an issue on the project's web site about the trouble you had installing? ( http://github.com/c3d/db48x ). Thanks! Also, were you aware of this tutorial: https://www.…
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Comment #42071187
There is a free iPhone version as well (called DB40X). Maybe some day give it a try?
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Comment #42071182
A physicist working on the project used this to compute the space contraction for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle , which presumably traveled at 0.999999999999…
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Comment #42071146
Let's see your Python answers to the following examples: 1. What happens if I rotate binary pattern 1001 right by 3 positions on a 18-bit PDP-9? RPL code: 18 STWS 2#1001 3 RRC Resu…
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Comment #42070557
> Why not? Keystroke count and progressive computations. Let me illustrate using an example from a YouTube video called "The hardest Exam Question : Only 6% of students solved it c…
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Comment #42070528
> I admire the project, although I would probably have taken a different path (emulation) to get the biggest effect with the smallest possible effort :-) Emulators are stuck in the…
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Comment #42070484
> Where's the apostrophe (equiv. to quote in lisp)? That should be an easily accessible key not buried in a menu. The apostrophe is on the XEQ key of the DM42, or "F". But in RPL, …
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Comment #39467251
The current state is "on backburner by lack of time". Projects like https://grenouillebouillie.wordpress.com/2022/03/07/a-theory... and https://github.com/c3d/DB48X-on-DM42/tree/st…
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Comment #39459261
The really ugly stuff is here: https://github.com/c3d/xl/blob/master/src/llvm-crap.cpp
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Comment #39459219
I realized I forgot to share my most memorable piece of code ever: llvm-crap (Compatibility Restoration Adaptive Protocol) https://github.com/c3d/xl/blob/master/src/llvm-crap.h
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Comment #39455870
Check out Pure. https://agraef.github.io/pure-lang/ This was what convinced me to switch to LLVM. I now regret that decision, but at the time, it sounded like a lot of fun.