OK, I know there are some calculator nerds here, I remember some discussions in the past....
I'm wondering..... today, what is considered to be the absolute top-tier best scientific calculator these days? most accurate, fast processor, best function and logic, and whatever else is 'best'
Back in my day, from what I knew and was exposed to it was HP. This was back in the days long before graphing calculators. I used an 11C all through school and then for a long time at work. Their lowest end 11C for me only because that was what I could afford.
I've been using an HP35s a work for the last bunch of years, only because that was just about the only RPN calculator I could find when I decided to stop using my museum piece 11C (The LCD started bleeding around the edges, + I was looking for a multiline display). Well actually I bought some other HP model that lasted only a year or two...piece of junk. This 35s is better. For the work I do now a simple middle school level casio would work but my brain thinks RPN. I just don't need anything better and have little desire to learn a new graphing calculator full of functions that I'll never use.
Anyway, I just have a pretty solid idea that HP is no longer the thing to have. Seems like they have abandoned that market.
Anyway, I got myself into a calculator rabbit hole last night. My son just finished his freshman year. Just taking the required freshman junk classes. Undecided major but is on track to do some sort of engineering. He took Calc1 his freshman year and is taking Calc 2 over the summer and was doing homework yesterday. I caught him using his iPhone as a calculator! He never bought a better one...sees no need at this point.
I told him that he needs to order a calcular now, so that he can start learning how to use it before he gets into his real classes!
I certainly don't want to choose it for him...but seeing as how I once was a calculator nerd or at least a 'wana-be'... I want to know for myself, and so that I can better advise him...
Seems like TI is almost the only game in town now
& I'll admit to being alarmed by that because TI used to be pretty much 'garbage' (press 9 once and get 9999999..., anyone remember that?)
So am I missing something?
I'm wondering..... today, what is considered to be the absolute top-tier best scientific calculator these days? most accurate, fast processor, best function and logic, and whatever else is 'best'
as if money is no object.... what are the young engineers at top-tier engineering jobs using these days? or do they even use calculators anymore?...is everything done by PC?
and if money is an object, what seems to be the go-to compromise? (like top tier student level)
Back in my day, from what I knew and was exposed to it was HP. This was back in the days long before graphing calculators. I used an 11C all through school and then for a long time at work. Their lowest end 11C for me only because that was what I could afford.
I've been using an HP35s a work for the last bunch of years, only because that was just about the only RPN calculator I could find when I decided to stop using my museum piece 11C (The LCD started bleeding around the edges, + I was looking for a multiline display). Well actually I bought some other HP model that lasted only a year or two...piece of junk. This 35s is better. For the work I do now a simple middle school level casio would work but my brain thinks RPN. I just don't need anything better and have little desire to learn a new graphing calculator full of functions that I'll never use.
Anyway, I just have a pretty solid idea that HP is no longer the thing to have. Seems like they have abandoned that market.
Anyway, I got myself into a calculator rabbit hole last night. My son just finished his freshman year. Just taking the required freshman junk classes. Undecided major but is on track to do some sort of engineering. He took Calc1 his freshman year and is taking Calc 2 over the summer and was doing homework yesterday. I caught him using his iPhone as a calculator! He never bought a better one...sees no need at this point.
I told him that he needs to order a calcular now, so that he can start learning how to use it before he gets into his real classes!
I certainly don't want to choose it for him...but seeing as how I once was a calculator nerd or at least a 'wana-be'... I want to know for myself, and so that I can better advise him...
Seems like TI is almost the only game in town now
& I'll admit to being alarmed by that because TI used to be pretty much 'garbage' (press 9 once and get 9999999..., anyone remember that?)
So am I missing something?