pashdown@javelin.es.com (Pete Ashdown) (01/10/91)
In one of my new math classes, the teacher has forbidden the use of
programmable calculators. I own a 48SX and although I wouldn't have
programmed it to cheat, I still would have used some of its more basic
functions. So I need to know what is the next best thing to the 28/48? Does
HP make a fairly cheap scientific calculator that does trig, vector, and
matrix functions? ->Q and -Q(pi) would be nice, but are not essential.
--
"No, no, no! It is an empirical law of physics that the heat flux at any
point is proportional to the temperature gradient at that point."
- Claudia Schiffer, over breakfast.
Pete Ashdown pashdown@javelin.sim.es.com ...uunet!javelin.sim.es.com!pashdownttoupin@diana.cair.du.edu (Aerin (Tory Toupin)) (01/10/91)
> In one of my new math classes, the teacher has forbidden the use of > programmable calculators. I own a 48SX and although I wouldn't have > programmed it to cheat, I still would have used some of its more basic > functions. So I need to know what is the next best thing to the 28/48? Does > HP make a fairly cheap scientific calculator that does trig, vector, and > matrix functions? ->Q and -Q(pi) would be nice, but are not essential. > -- > "No, no, no! It is an empirical law of physics that the heat flux at any > point is proportional to the temperature gradient at that point." > - Claudia Schiffer, over breakfast. > Pete Ashdown pashdown@javelin.sim.es.com ...uunet!javelin.sim.es.com!pashdown > I have an HP-20S (along with 28C/S, and 48SX), and it is a rather nice calculator... It is programmable in terms of storing and repeating keystrokes plus some simple logic, and it has 6 built-in programs for:finding roots, numerical integration,complex operations,3x3 matrix ops,quadratic equation, and curve fitting... No ->Q or ->Q(pi), tho. I think I got mine for about $45-$50... -- Aerin el Supreo Inteligencia | "Fly, Fleance, fly!!!" ... ttoupin@diana.cair.du.edu | "Well, kill it and get it Unversity of Denver | over with! It won't bite!" Undergraduate: Math & Computer Sciences| Denver, CO 80208 | ----- C'est ne pas un fichier de <<.signature>>