QAMA calculator

[Nigel (UK)]

(07-23-2014 11:22 PM)Geir Isene Wrote:  After catching this thread, I went on to order the Qama. It arrived a couple of days ago, and I must say I am impressed. Me and my fiancé went all geeky that night competing for the best guess for various complexity of equations. It should serve as an excellent tool for my 10-year old son who's very much into mathematics. Thanks for bringing this to my attention :-)

Me too - mine arrived yesterday. It really is enormous fun - can you estimate (cos70)^30 well enough to satisfy it? For such a cheap machine ($20 plus delivery) the standard of the hardware is excellent. I'm particularly impressed by the keyboard - nice spring-loaded buttons with a "Casio" feel to them. They don't click but you can tell you've pressed them, and they always register exactly once. It's good to see that such nice keyboards can be manufactured relatively cheaply. The display is clear, too.

Nigel (UK)