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</syntaxhighlight>Some complaints were that this arrangement broke long-standing user habit, broke the physical proximity of the operators to the stack lifting ENTER key, or that the new location is illogical as the most used arithmetic operators tends to be the multiply and addition keys, which should be grouped together, etc., Others defended that this arrangement allowed easier single-handed operation for right-handed users using their dominant hand, which was arguably more important for the Voyager form factor. | </syntaxhighlight>Some complaints were that this arrangement broke long-standing user habit, broke the physical proximity of the operators to the stack lifting ENTER key, or that the new location is illogical as the most used arithmetic operators tends to be the multiply and addition keys, which should be grouped together, etc., Others defended that this arrangement allowed easier single-handed operation for right-handed users using their dominant hand, which was arguably more important for the Voyager form factor. | ||
Internally values are stored as 10 digits BCD with 2 digit mantissa, for a total of 4 digit (56 bytes). Flag 9 is set when the value overflows causing the display to blink, the offending value is replaced with 9.99... E99 in the stack. <syntaxhighlight lang="text"> | Internally values are stored as 10 digits BCD with 2 digit mantissa, for a total of 4 digit (56 bytes). Flag 9 is set when the value overflows causing the display to blink, the offending value is replaced with 9.99... E99 in the stack. <syntaxhighlight lang="text"> | ||