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Forensics? Have these calculators committed a crime (against numerical analysis)?
by kazinator 1y ago
Forensics? Have these calculators committed a crime (against numerical analysis)?
- gs17 1y agoIf they have, this site has their fingerprints.
- bobmcnamara 1y agoFailure to identify an identity! Straight to calculator jail!
- maxbond 1y agoI think it's forensic in the sense that, should you perform this operation on an unknown calculator, this chart could be used to identify it.
- maxbond 1y agoOn second thought what you'd probably do is identify the chipset of a calculator.
- kstrauser 1y agoI think you'd identify the "OS" of a calculator. For example, HP famously had lots of long, complex, highly accurate algorithms in its firmware. They could reuse large portions of that between different models, regardless of the hardware executing it.
- maxbond 1y agoFor sure. I was imagining that the software would be pretty thin and the FP behavior would be primarily a function of chipset, but I stand corrected.
- gblargg 1y agoThis is a good way to find out what fugitive chip an unknown calculator is harboring.