Depends on what you are doing, but it can be fewer keystrokes for more complicated calculations, aka not basic arithmetic like 33 x 42, which is six keystrokes

Depends on what you are doing, but it can be fewer keystrokes for more complicated calculations, aka not basic arithmetic like 33 x 42, which is six keystrokes either way (3,3,x,4,2,= or 3,3,Enter,4,2,x). Edit: replaced asterisks as multiplication symbol for x’s to avoid markup processing.