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What advantage does Wp34s have ove the HP50g? Message #1 Posted by Bernard Rochlin on 5 Dec 2011, 5:16 a.m. What are benefits of wp34s have over the HP50g in doing CAS calculations?

Re: What advantage does Wp34s have ove the HP50g? Message #2 Posted by Paul Dale on 5 Dec 2011, 5:39 a.m., in response to message #1 by Bernard Rochlin None. The 34S has no CAS. - Pauli

Re: What advantage does Wp34s have ove the HP50g? Message #3 Posted by bluesun08 on 5 Dec 2011, 8:46 a.m., in response to message #2 by Paul Dale CAS is not the future.

Re: What advantage does Wp34s have ove the HP50g? Message #4 Posted by Crawl on 5 Dec 2011, 9:05 a.m., in response to message #3 by bluesun08 Sure it is.

Re: What advantage does Wp34s have ove the HP50g? Message #5 Posted by Eddie W. Shore on 5 Dec 2011, 8:49 a.m., in response to message #1 by Bernard Rochlin I don't think the WP 34S has CAS calculations.

Re: What advantage does Wp34s have ove the HP50g? Message #6 Posted by Jesse Dodd on 5 Dec 2011, 12:40 p.m., in response to message #1 by Bernard Rochlin It fits in your shirt pocket.

Re: What advantage does Wp34s have ove the HP50g? Message #7 Posted by bluesun08 on 5 Dec 2011, 1:05 p.m., in response to message #6 by Jesse Dodd My HP 15c is already there.

Re: What advantage does Wp34s have ove the HP50g? Message #8 Posted by Walter B on 5 Dec 2011, 1:34 p.m., in response to message #7 by bluesun08 Seems both the HP-15C and the WP 34S are fermions, and the shirtpocket is a rectangular potential well. Both calculators can't live in ground state of said well simultaneously - one will occupy an metastable excited level tending to leave the well quite soon. Ground state energy of the HP-50G even exceeds the well walls, so it tends to leave said well quasi-instantaneously ;-)

Re: What advantage does Wp34s have ove the HP50g? Message #9 Posted by Dominic Richens on 5 Dec 2011, 2:13 p.m., in response to message #8 by Walter B uh...yeah, what he said! :-)

Re: What advantage does Wp34s have ove the HP50g? Message #10 Posted by Peter Murphy (Livermore) on 5 Dec 2011, 2:26 p.m., in response to message #8 by Walter B Credit where due: That's Pauli's Exclusion Principle, more or less.

Re: What advantage does Wp34s have ove the HP50g? Message #11 Posted by Walter B on 5 Dec 2011, 3:11 p.m., in response to message #10 by Peter Murphy (Livermore) Exactly - no wonder with the name of our co-founder ;-)

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