Subj : Re: PI to 104 Decimal Places
To   : Mike Powell
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Sat Aug 30 2025 09:12:01

-=> Mike Powell wrote to ED VANCE <=-

 MP> I have only had 4 bangers, too.  Well, I take that back.  On my desk
 MP> right now is a Casio fx-82B that I have had for years.  It will also do
 MP> some geometric functions, but I don't think I have ever used it for
 MP> anything but addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.  I
 MP> have long since forgotten what most of "those other buttons" are for.

 Most of what I use the calculator on my desk for it converting decimal
 to hex and vice versa. Fidonet technology, when passing files back and
 forth, uses the hex representation of the decimal network and node
 number for file names, and figuring out which file goes to who can be
 tricky.

 Although, Synchronet's echocfg utility, where you define nodes, now
 displays the net/node number in hex. Handy!


 
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