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by rmrfchik 1539 days ago
Heh. Had one. I overclocked my calculator by installing lower resistor (like 1MOhm to 250k, don't remember actual values). It sure was brilliant back then. Numbers were expressed in scientific notation and despite there were only 2 digits for order, actually calculator was capable to calculate up to 10^999. Number greater 10^99 were displayed as "ERROR" (in 7 segment it was 'ЕГГОГ'), but if you lower order you can get correct mantissa. In fact, the situation was more complex, some numbers were '3ГГОГ'. It was very fun to discover hidden secrets.
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3ГГ0Г!! Oh this brings back memories from my MK-52 :-)