Real Calc vs Emulator - My Experience

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I'm another "please hand me the real calculator" person, even though at my desk I also have a cell phone.

Most of the work I'm doing right now Is fairly straightforward and only requires base conversions, hexadecimal arithmetic and bit twiddling; for whatever reason I have found the 42S interface (I'm using a DM42) easier to use than the 16C (I also, sigh, have a DM16), and could just as easily be done in Free42. But to use Free42 on my phone I have to use the fingerprint reader and start the app, rather than just pushing "ON". There's less friction in using a real calculator.

(That said, I have Free42 installed on my phone and every computer I own, because when I'm away from my desk I want something to fall back on!)