Weak New CR2032/remote start + fob batteries

[y_p_w]

Originally Posted by Garak
Originally Posted by y_p_w
Didn't think of that possibility, but this was designed back in 1984 or 1985. I've even done my own projects at work where we couldn't simply devote resources (i.e. silicon area) to lookup tables and resorted to using brute force with shared resources. This is just a multiply and accumulate. I'm guessing it was taking so long because it was doing serial multiplication, then floating point multiplication when the numbers started getting too big for the display.

Yes, my TI calculator of a similar vintage (maybe a year newer) did factorials the same way. They took their time to come up, for sure, unlike anything more "normal."

I was bored sometimes. I remember doing in class when I too bored listening to the teacher/instructor lecture. I'm pretty sure it was just doing 1*2*3*4*5..... because it would come up almost immediately if it was 3!.

 

[Garak]

We had a CS teacher that would make us do mathematical algorithms and write the program, so we were very familiar with the factorial keys on our calculators, those that had them.

 

[Vikas]

Be honest, how many of you thought the guy was talking about automotive stethoscope before $400 price was brought up? Even the name Litman did not register even though my sister had purchased one during her medical school. I am getting too old.

 

[y_p_w]

Originally Posted by Vikas
Be honest, how many of you thought the guy was talking about automotive stethoscope before $400 price was brought up? Even the name Litman did not register even though my sister had purchased one during her medical school. I am getting too old.

Don't some people use traditional medical stethoscopes to diagnose car issues? But apparently these electronic ones take it a step further with noise cancellation and signal processing. Probably wouldn't work well for an automotive environment if the noise cancellation is tuned for a typical medical environment.