4-banger?

[Scottie]

Wow -- I'm away for a couple days after starting this thread and look what happens!

I'm way behind in a response, but I stand corrected, 4-banger refers just to the four arithmetic functions, and yeah, even a basic scientific should do way more than that. A 4 banger is one of those junky throw-away free calculators you might get years back for opening a bank account. I suppose those might have a percent function of some kind, too.

Incidentally, one of my favorites of the older units is the HP-25, and what you're sketching out is right along the lines of what I'm thinking of.

I agree, having statistical functionality ranks above complex (and matrix) functions, IME, but this again is probably where I'd switch over to a laptop, anyway.

Pretty cute description: Nick-knacks... those things we can't bear to throw away that collect dust?

Hope not!

Scott