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What calculator do you use ?
slateraptor:
To place a bit of objectivity into selecting a suitable calculator, it's worth pointing out that young engineering students in the US looking to take the FE exam are limited to a small subset of NCEES-approved scientific calculators.
I personally use a HP 35s almost exclusively, although I would like to own the not much older 32sii. I also own/use: HP 15c (x2), HP 33s, and HP 50g. It goes without saying that once you've made the transition to RPN, you'll never settle for anything else.
I've owned/used a handful of TI graphing calculators, starting with 86 and 83 in high school, then 84 Ag and 89 Ti in college. Got tired of lugging around a massive calculator whose powerful features weren't very useful.
meffe:
Had a TI89 that died the night before my statistics exam. My flatmate had another one, so i was saved for that time.
Now i use HP 50g (excellent, except that the keys are a tad hard to press compared to what I'm used to) or the iPhone app m48 (free graphing HP48 emulator). Also have a Casio fx82-ES for exams or when I don't need my HP.
Plan to get a couple of HP30b (cheap and seems to have good keys) and upgrade one of them to WP48 (scientific calc firmware). Check that project out, it's really cool!
lavo-1:
I used a 23 year old CASIO fx-570, but it has finally give up just last month (it also had the"0" key missing) :'(
I have been using RealCalc on my Tablet, but its just not the same.
I really miss being able to put in Engineering notations such a Mega, Kilo, micro pico, etc.
Modern calculators don't seem to have these short cuts now. ???
Maybe I'm just being lazy. :-[
Kilroy:
TI Voyage 200, TI-30XS, TI-30XA, Casio fx-991MS.
Invariably, a 0.5mm Pentel Sharp Kerry and paper for some stuff.
--- Quote from: lavo-1 on April 17, 2012, 07:00:37 pm ---I really miss being able to put in Engineering notations such a Mega, Kilo, micro pico, etc.
Modern calculators don't seem to have these short cuts now. ???
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Casio fx-991MS
Not really much of a short cut when compared to the the TI-30XS which lacks this capability and yet takes five less key strokes to add something like 5 X 10E-3 + 5 X 10E3 =
Like, 10 strokes to the Casio's 15.
ciccio:
--- Quote from: slateraptor on April 17, 2012, 05:26:20 pm ---To place a bit of objectivity into selecting a suitable calculator, it's worth pointing out that young engineering students in the US looking to take the FE exam are limited to a small subset of NCEES-approved scientific calculators.
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I've read the NCEES page, and I'm not sure that I fully understood:
They say that I cannot bring my trusty HP 11C to the exam, but I must buy that horrible-looking HP 33s?
Best regards
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