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Doing mostly bcd math is unfortunately one of the reasons why the old style HP calculators were dog-slow. It also did not help that those old calculators like r
by ElectricalUnion 4y ago
Doing mostly bcd math is unfortunately one of the reasons why the old style HP calculators were dog-slow. It also did not help that those old calculators like rounding values too much.
- jdmichal 4y agoNot calculators, but I did some tests a few years ago, and I'm pretty sure the BCD instructions on modern processors are no longer implemented in hardware. They were no different than using an equivalent string of other opcodes.