Re: Looks like the 15C or such would work! Message #3 Posted by Ed Look on 1 Mar 2005, 11:29 a.m., in response to message #2 by Gene
This may be stupid wishful thinking, but if HP could "resurrect" an old model, whatever fancy new case or model number they want to give it, they might appeal to schools or organizations with these concerns.
Namely, I was thinking of the old 25C, 31E, 32E, etc., that have only so many memory registers, the usual complement of scientific functions and not a whit more, and no or very, very limited programming ability.
To those of us who have to use such a machine for work, it won't be nearly enough, but for come schools, such as this gentleman's university, or even middle or junior high or intermediate schools, a calculator with only trig, exponentials, arithmetic operators, inverse, maybe even factorial (gamma function) and continuous memory (I suppose this is a given, these days) will only enhance the learning of basic to advanced mathematics. The only thing it won't really handle would be numerical analysis, and even then, if one has a lot of time...
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