adj.
- Of or relating to a focus.
- Placed at or measured from a focus.
Dictionary:
fo·cal (fō'kəl)
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1. limited to a small area or volume.
2. pertaining to or emanating from focus.
| Wikipedia: Focal (HP-41) |
The Forty-one calculator language (Focal) is the language used to program the HP-41 range of expandable science/engineering calculators from Hewlett-Packard.
As with most other calculator programming languages of the 1980s, a Focal program is a linear list of instructions. Each instruction (or step) roughly correspond to a key (or key combination) press, and thus correspond to what the user would do if he was to perform the computation himself on the calculator. This paradigm made Focal programming relatively easy for the newcomer, but program maintenance could be a nightmare. Add to that the use of GOTO instructions—including going to a program step based on a value in a data register ("GTO IND"), a technique known as computed goto—and you had all the ingredients for the dreaded spaghetti code syndrome.
Program steps are numbered starting from 1, but this numbering has no intrinsic meaning, and can change as new instructions are added or removed in the middle of a program. A special instruction LBL is used to create a label, that can be used by the user to invoke the program, or by the program itself, as target of a GTO (unconditional go-to) or XEQ (execute) instruction.
Here's a very simple Focal program :
001 LBL "DOUBLE" 002 2 003 * 004 END
Note that contrary to many other programmable calculators, each Focal step could be stored in memory as more than one byte. While the calculator memory could hold 2233 bytes of program code, no reported program actually reached this number of steps.
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| Translations: Focal |
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Nederlands (Dutch)
betreffende het brandpunt
Français (French)
adj. - focal
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Deutsch (German)
adj. - Brennpunkt-, Brenn-
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Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - (οπτ., μτφ.) εστιακός
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Português (Portuguese)
adj. - focal
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Русский (Russian)
фокальный, фокусный
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Español (Spanish)
adj. - focal
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Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - fokal-
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
焦点的, 在焦点上的
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中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 焦點的, 在焦點上的
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한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 초점상의, 초점을 연결하는
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עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - של מוקד, מוקדי
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