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I stick to my HP-50G (which is pretty much the best all-around calculator ever made) and intend to eventually maintain the iOS emulator myself, as it seems ther
by jwr 8y ago
I stick to my HP-50G (which is pretty much the best all-around calculator ever made) and intend to eventually maintain the iOS emulator myself, as it seems there is so little interest.
I do not understand why people do not use calculators, if you are in any engineering profession, it makes life so much easier. No, wolfram alpha, google, siri, python or bc are not the same thing at all.
- 0xffff2 8y ago>No, wolfram alpha, google, siri, python or bc are not the same thing at all. Why not? A combination of the plain old Windows calculator (scientific and programmer modes) and DDG/Google for unit conversions has worked well for me for years, and doesn't require that I move my fingers off the keyboard.
- jwr 8y agoBecause you can't use these tools on many occasions, they don't always do exactly what you want, and accessing them is slower than using a calculator. The devil is in the details. Such as being able to quickly switch to engineering notation to display values applicable in electronics. Also, I often want to do a series of calculations, for which an RPN calculator with a stack (you can see the top 7 levels) is uniquely suited. As another example, unit conversions (basically, convert between every unit known to man) is something I use every day. It takes about 6 keystrokes to convert from anything to pretty much anything on a HP-50G.