importing excel file to hp prime

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Continuing experience with the Prime most likely will confirm your analysis. In particular, expectations of the Prime, as a math tool, can seem to evolve into a Pareto reality. This is due in large part, to the documentation layer. Not to be overlooked is that "teaching" philosophy, as you have already noted.

The idea is that you should only use the calculator as a speedy convenience, in order to not let, "the machine do the thinking for you." With that idea in mind, your engineering goals might get compromised, when barriers of the calculator collide with the design objective of it's author.

I could cite many examples, but, just for one, (in CAS), take a numeric 2x2 matrix, say: a:=[[4,4],[-3,3]]; Now, try to return svd(a), and you can see what I am alluding to. Change it a little: let a:=[[4,3],[8,6]]; and retry svd(a).

If you have the sheer determination to stop your work, and investigate why those outcomes prevailed, and use another CAS system to confirm results, just be forewarned, that process might become troublesome here.

With forward advances in technology, it is natural to think we would be well beyond this, because it is such a great product, in so many ways. Yet, here we are, and there are lots of reasons, so hopefully, a next generation product will be able to offer a more suitable feature mix!