My WP 31S was stolen... by my nine year old son. Missing are the calculator, case and printed manual.
Bandit has not been seen, but I heard an outcry: "Dad! Your name is in the manual!"
The first of my two young ones have started their RPN path.
Excellent parenting Sanjeev! You've obviously instilled the proper appreciation for fine quality and efficient tools into your family. Now it seems the focus needs to shift to that "borrowing" thing... ;-)
So you did successfully create something reasonable appealing to the younger generation. Nice, isn't it?
d:-)
Yes, it is satisfying that a new generation finds some appeal in it. It's also interesting to me to watch someone with a grade 4 mathematics background using a RPN calculator with little effort. Young brains train easily. Also, they were relieved to see that Pi had a prominent place in the keyboard. The 31S has a winning keyboard design, for sure.
This theft has caused a stir amongst individuals similarly aged in the same residence. I now have another 30B on order as well as another printed manual (this time from Create Space).
We made a four sided cylinder with each side named after a stack register (classic 4 level stack) as a visual aid for stack roll operations. Kids are inventive!
(04-24-2015 10:01 PM)Sanjeev Visvanatha Wrote: [ -> ]This theft has caused a stir amongst individuals similarly aged in the same residence. I now have another 30B on order as well as another printed manual (this time from Create Space).
We made a four sided cylinder with each side named after a stack register (classic 4 level stack) as a visual aid for stack roll operations. Kids are inventive!
Inventive kids love to experiment with semi-mechanical representations of abstract concepts.
Maybe they would enjoy playing with the "Digi-Comp II" a mechanical representation of a serial binary adder/subtracter/multiplyer.
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