Little explorations with HP calculators (no Prime)

[Dieter]

By the way...

(04-10-2017 08:00 AM)pier4r Wrote:  Is there a way to solve it on the 50g (or other non-prime calculators?)? I could not identify any useful built in procedure.

There is this proverb, saying "If you got a hammer everything looks like a nail". ;-)

You have a new 50g and you now want to use it for every problem that comes around. That's not a good idea. Better analyze the problem and then pick the right tool. Which in most cases is your brain. Maybe a calculator is useful for the final step.

You can even think one step further: The problems you have been posting are intended to be solved by hand (err... brain). So they are designed in a way that does not require a calculator. For exploring your 50g's capabilities other problems may be more useful. For instance those presented at the yearly meetings.

Dieter