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What's the current go-to calculator for electrical engineers?
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armandine2:
I did a reset on my HP Prime the other day (not so easy to press three of the front buttons and poke a paper clip in the backside LOL). It did get the Geometry App to work again, though.

Re Swiss Micros - close but no cigar
BreakingOhmsLaw:

--- Quote from: Berni on November 17, 2021, 06:19:54 am ---So the ideal calculator is really a lot about personal taste.

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Truer words have never been spoken.

I did not yet find a way of efficiently converting decimal/binary/hex on the HP Prime. If anyone knows a good practice, please let me know.
SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: Berni on November 17, 2021, 06:19:54 am ---The RPN thing is mostly because old calculators often used it and people got used to it, especially the financial calculators, then HP used it on a lot of calculators too and they got pretty popular too. People get used to it and just prefer it.
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At the time, compared to a typical "non-RPN" calculator, I must admit it was a big improvement. Mainly because said "algebraic" input was really an odd mix of stuff. You'd still not exactly press buttons in the order you'd write algebraic expressions, for instance regarding functions. And since they didn't display the whole expression anyway on screen, it was really hard to see what you were doing and keep track of it.

Of course, with modern calculators with much larger screens which show full expressions as written on paper, this is something completely different, and as I said, the ability to see full expressions, and an history of them, is much more practical than just RPN entry with a stack of numbers. Things change.


--- Quote from: Berni on November 17, 2021, 06:19:54 am ---So the ideal calculator is really a lot about personal taste.

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Yes of course. And habits.
tooki:

--- Quote from: BreakingOhmsLaw on November 18, 2021, 12:33:16 am ---
--- Quote from: Berni on November 17, 2021, 06:19:54 am ---So the ideal calculator is really a lot about personal taste.

--- End quote ---

Truer words have never been spoken.

I did not yet find a way of efficiently converting decimal/binary/hex on the HP Prime. If anyone knows a good practice, please let me know.

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Pressing Base (Shift + minus sign) twice in a row (from the empty command line) opens the Edit Integer window. Press the Edit soft key and all the numbers become editable. Handy for bit masks and stuff.
emece67:
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