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Fishing in the bottom drawer for my HP-35....
Funny as hell a couple of years ago watching my then 8yo grand daughter trying to wrap her head round RPN.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Me, I'm from the HP48 generation 
Mircea
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I've got my college HP48CX downstairs with the batteries taken out (still worked fine), and an emulator I use on my phone for my calculator.
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My step-dad, an electrical engineer, bought an HP-35 when they first came out. I believe he still has it, and it is still in working order.
Software Zen: delete this;
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In the very early days of calculators, there were 4-function models and significantly more expensive 5-function models - the fifth function was square root.
A friend of mine saved money buying the 4-function model, hoping that it really could do square root as well, even if the button for it was missing; there was only a flat grey square in its position. Hopefully, it would be possible to solder in a small pushbutton.
So my friend found a scalpel for cutting the flat grey square open. And out popped a button with a square root symbol on top. Not only could the calculator do square root, it even had the button for it hidden under the blind cover!
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I'll leave it to OG to post the solution. 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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In that case, cant we just increment by 1. Bed having information is convincing (7)
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Bed having information is convincing (6)
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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[edit]Bugger! I forgot to self censor for an hour ... [/edit]
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Too late YAUT
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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No, no - nobody saw it but you and I. We can do this!
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You company man
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Does that mean I now will have two bodies to hide? This is going to turn into a Bruce Willis movie if we aren't careful ... 
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Yippee Ki Yay m?????f???er
Edit
Gear department is convincing.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 27-Oct-21 4:38am.
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Bed CO T
having
information GEN
is convincing
COGENT
(I'm getting a sense of déjà vu here ... still could be worse: réjà vu is a bitch.)
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You are officially up tomorrow
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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How did I know that was going to happen?
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Our self imposed handicapping system is not working - I'm trying to make the clues easier ( yesterdays wasn't a good clue in hindsight ) but it still seems to be you that solves most of them - I know what the problem is !!! IT'S YOU you are barred forthwith
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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:HangsHeadInShame:
:ShufflesOffToChokey:
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I am trying to figure out how to train an AI to solve these and then I will feed it random words to see what answers it generates.
So far all I can come up with is
Requirements:
1. Answer must appear in dictionary
2. Length of answer matches number in ()
GEN?
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GEN | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary[^]
It's from "general information" in military parlance, apparently.
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