> On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 at 01.35.03 -0500, Chuck Cole wrote: > > Several kinds of applications require more than 8 digit precision. > > HP calculators are the only ones that have at least 10 digits of > > precision throughout. We could not use TI scientific calculators except > > as slide rule replacements because of their 8 digit limited precision. > > Discovering that 8 digits was not enough at all in these applications > > made a deep impression on me. > > Many releases of Linux have a tool called ORPIE which is a visual RPN calculator. Maybe you could use that, it is also available for Cygwin. Just a though. Don S.