Re: Nspire CX available? Message #6 Posted by Eric Smith on 24 May 2011, 1:21 a.m., in response to message #1 by David Ramsey
Just got one from a local Office Depot today. The display is quite good. The most intriguing thing to me is how the cursor thing acts both as a directional pad with click buttons, and as a touch pad. I've only had a few minutes to play with it. It seems that to use the touch pad you have to keep your finger on it until the cursor appears.
The first thing I did was select calculator mode and compute e to the i pi, which gave -1 as expected.
I liked that it defaulted to radians rather than degrees. I suppose some people will hate that, but at least it is trivial to change.
Apparently the Nspire OS 3.x has an undocumented Lua interpreter, which is more powerful than the crippled "BASIC" of the NSpire. Unfortunately it appears that there is no way to get powerful programming that actually integrates with the calculator features like you can with the HP 28/48/49/50.
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