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Suggestions on scientific calculator, solar, one line - like TI-36X Solar in EU?

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nctnico:
Give me using the postfixes all day long. Making a mistake with milli/micro/nano is easy to do. I never ever want to use a calculator for electronics which doesn't have the postfixes; it makes life so much easier when the calculator speaks the same language. I can buy 2M Ohm resistors but not 2e6 Ohm resistors. Besides that I often want to edit an expression and recalculate. Not sure whether RPN supports that.

TimFox:
My RPNs, operated in "ENG" format, use numerical values for the exponents, rather than postfixes.  If you hit  1 (EEX) -8, the display goes to 10.00 -09.  Works for me.

emece67:
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brichards42:
I asked about postfix symbol support on the swissmicro form a few days ago.
They had no plans to implement it since there was no interest in that feature.

It was suggested I just needed to be more careful when enter exponents.

TimFox:
Of course at my age, I learned about “scientific notation” for powers of ten at a tender age and much later started using the “ENG” format.  With postfices, one must also worry about case, “m” vs. “M”, and life is already complicated.
You need not follow my example, but you will need to take RPN from me from my cold, dead hands.

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