Calculator thread now!
RPN master race!
TI and casio babbies need not apply!
This calculator fucks in half all other calculators
good enough for me
Boom take this babies.
My baby
>>54399260
You faggots making these threads constantly are actually starting to make me want to fall for the rpn meme. I noticed an HP-12C on a co-worker's desk today and instantly thought of how this thread comes up 12 times a day on here.
>using calculators with low resolution
>>54399457
I like this one because it keeps roots in its answers.
The only good calculator.
>>54399457
good taste
I love my two. However the battery on the nspire is shit.
>>54399594
> not being master race
>>54399299
Voyage 200 is better than the TI-89
>>54399260
Okay.
I own both TI86 and an HP48g.
I got them when I was in high school, and basically always used the TI86 because that is the one I got first and... well, I never had a real trouble with that.
So tell me, /g/, can you list some real reason why I should stop using my Ti86 and start using my HP48G ?
Please note that I have used many "advanced functions" (matrix, graphing, programming) and have never been disappointed (considering it's a calculator, after all).
>>54399668
I am master race. I'm on a PC. Not a fucking mobile phone, you giant faggot.
>>54399690
> implying I'm on a mobile phone
>>54399732
IOS emulator. How fucking lame is that. What a huge waste of bites and bytes. SUCH A WASTE. DO YOU HEAR ME. IT IS A WASTE. YOU ARE A WASTE. YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD FOR WHO YOU ARE.
>>54399762
try beating this one then
>>54399590
I always hated that there's no option to disable that
Always having to press a button sucks
>>54399840
>yfw this piece of shit would be one of the most valuable things in the world if you sent it back in time even only a hundred years.
A MESSAGE TO ALL NON-RPN NORMIES:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WmaAl6hPzw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WmaAl6hPzw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WmaAl6hPzw
>>54399732
>>54399788
Stand aside faggots, its time to make calculators great again
>>54399788
>>54399852
>not using the OS X calculator in RPN mode
>>54399260
My HP 50hkilled itself today. The batteries it came with became hot enough to almost burn me, and hot enough to start melting the back of the calculator and the battery tray. I put new batteries in and it will not turn on. I was still within Amazon's return time, so I am getting a refund. I am not sure if it was the calculator or the cheap batteries it came with that did it. It had worked fine for ~3 weeks.
My ti-89 I got for $3 at a thrift store a couple years ago is still running strong though.
>>54401147
*hp 50g
>>54401068
Right
>>54401147
Were you keeping pieces of metal foil in the battery compartment for safekeeping or something? What the fuck.
>>54399299
listening to bottomless pit?
>>54401196
I was using it normally. I have no idea how it happened. The batteries had almost popped open when I took them out. I am guessing it was because of the cheap batteries that came with it, but I am not sure.
>>54399480
Does your wp34 has IR/USB mod?
>>54401222
I'd say get another one. That sounds like the batteries shorted out somehow, which I've never had happen on anything I've bought. I think you just got cosmically unlucky.
>>54401111
>>54399788
OSX is really pretty. Wish windows looked better.
>>54401175
werksonmymachine.PNG
Xlythe Holo theme
>>54401245
Yeah, I might. The buttons on the 50g are much more tactile than on the ti-89, and it has a dedicated log base 10 button, which is useful while taking a chem class.
>>54399260
Thinking of switching from TI Nspire.
Will I still be able to do matrices and triple integrals with comfort?
>>54401262
>OSX copies Metro
>Gee, I wish Windows looked more like Windows, just like OSX!
Stop using Windows 98.
>>54401243
I own two now, the older one's getting a couple mods.
I will make a post when it's finished!
>>54399762
*iOS simulator
this is the cheapest TI calculator with CAS. you can get one for a decent price. Most people don't even know this calculator exists it is exactly like the other TI NSPIRE CAS except without a color screen, so it is a more affordable alternative.
Tbh the only reason I didn't get a Casio is because they don't have CAS. If you don't need CAS go for a Casio.
I have never tried an HP50g it is cheaper and I guess a graybeard calculator.
>>54401068
Meh, care to send me the Win10 metro calc.exe? LTSB only has Win7 one.
>>54402186
>pic related
>tfw helped me through Discrete Computational Structures
God of calculators coming through.
>>54402198
How do you get your title bars to look like that on LTSB?
>>54401207
yeah
>>54402247
Same as you would on any other Windows version, UXTheme patcher.
>>54399260
professional cable monkey here; what do you use your calculator for? I only ever need the basic functions which I use on the computer. I have no idea how these are used in the real world...
>>54402220
mah boi
Any good android calculators?
>>54399260
I ordered a 50g and a 35s but now I can't find any buyers for my TI-84 and TI-89.
>>54402717
Does the 35s have a better feeling keypad than the 50g?
I thought about getting the 35s, but the 50g cost the same and had many more features.
>>54402220
I own a Prime, 50g, TI-89, nspire CX CAS, and TI-92.
There is no reason to use anything that's not the prime.
>>54402783
Only buy the 35s if you specifically need a scientific calculator without graphing or CAS abilities, otherwise get a 50g. I need both for some of my classes so I picked up both.
>>54399260
My hp48 died on me. Keyboard started acting up, like it would not register keypress here and there which is really nasty behavior for a calculator. Tried to repair it but i just ruined everything in the end.
Will probably get 35S.
Kinda don't really need calculator anymore since I'm behind computer all the time anyways.
>>54399502
Yeah, HP knows the new school semester is coming up, so they're spamming the fuck out of their shitty calculators.
HP hasn't been good since the 90s.
Never bothered or liked listening to memes but I tried out this rpn calculator app and found myself liking the way rpn calculators function. I may pick up a physical rpn calculator soon.
>>54404096
>shilling discontinued calculators
lol
>>54404096
>implying HP has anything to do with it
It's just RPN fans discussing RPN
>>54404114
If you buy them used like you should, HP doesnt recieve a single dime from you.
>>54404114
Same tactic as Thinkpad shilling. Get a $30 piece of shit as a gateway drug so they'll just upgrade to the latest models.
>>54404136
Sure thing faggot
>>54404136
>tfw old thinkpads are sold for 200 to 350 USD in my area.
Is the cheap thinkpad outdated meme shit at this point?
It's alright.
Better at math than the built-in Android one, at least.
>>54404129
used HP calcs are crazy expensive
they're cheaper to buy brand new because they haven't been scooped up by scalpers yet
>>54404136
>>54404156
I've bought 5 thinkpads and none of them cost more more than $120 each.
new thinkpads are objectively shit, they don't even look sturdy anymore
My latest one only cost me $60, the SSD i added cost more than that.
Now have: Ti-36x Pro, Casio FX-991EX (pic related), Ti-89 Titanium, Ti nSpire CX CAS.
>>54404180
Oooh, thank you for reminding me Ti-89 Ti emulators exist for Android.
I've always hated the calc app I have on here.
if u cant play snake on them they prolly suck
>>54399260
What are you looking at well logs for OP?
Best non-graphing calculator?
>>54406654
This. >>54404938
Or the previous model, fx-991es. shittier display, no fancy spreadsheet mode, but nicer button layout IMO
>>54406654
wp-34s
>>54399260
HP50g for the fucking win
>>54399299
Bet, nigga.
My Nspire CAS wipes the floor with the 89. But if I didn't have a nspire I'd want an 89 desu.
>>54407407
>fx-991es
Fucking slow and cant turn off converting to root, but still a good calculator
>>54399260
>reverse polish notation
>not just polish notation
Max pleb.
Its a fucking calculator. Ti, Casio, RPN. They all do the same thing you cucks.
>>54408082
>it's a fucking shell, command prompt is fine
>>54408119
a computer isn't a calculator retard it's not the same fucking thing
>>54408136
It's a valid comparison. Both command prompt and UNIX shells are a way to input text commands to the OS. One is vastly superior to the other. Just like RPN calculators > all else.
>>54408136
>A calculator isn't a computer
Who's the retard now?
>>54402198
>MansSkyAlpha-03.28...
Is it the March alpha of No Man's Sky?
>>54408162
>reverse polish notation > all else
Fuck off.
>>54409464
>I refuse to join the masterrace
Whatever you say anon
What's that I can't hear you over the fact that smart phones can run gnuplot and octave now.
>> 2016
>>Still using a dedicated calculator.
in b4 muh exams
>>54409604
My phone has a 3.1" square screen, not exactly good for a calculator emulator. Dedicated devices are superior anyway.
>>54409657
There is no need to emulate a calculator when you can run fucking octave or numpy on your phone. Shit you can even install a chroot with the GNU core utils and compile just about piece of scientific software to run on your phone, on your phone.
Phones have enough processing power to do so much more than angry birds.
>>54410067
>There is no need to emulate a calculator
You're right, I've got the real thing
>when you can run fucking octave or numpy on your phone
Sounds like quite the experience on a 3" screen
>Shit you can even install a chroot with the GNU core utils and compile just about piece of scientific software to run on your phone
No I can't.
>on your phone.
Again, no I can't.
>Phones have enough processing power to do so much more than angry birds.
Really? I thought the 884KHz CPU in my calculator was much more powerful than the dual core 1.2GHz CPU in my phone. No fucking shit they can do more than Angry Birds.
>>54409459
Yeah, but not the leaked one, its a newer build with dummy server, just testing it.
>>54410182
>>No I can't
Then you shouldn't be on /g/.
>>54410369
You misunderstand. I'm perfectly capable of doing such a thing, but it would require a different phone.
/ck/ here, i got an old casio CFX-9950GB PLUS.
I found it in an old storage box, used it in high school, 11-12 years ago.
Still running fine after so many years, but i lost the cable data...
Any idea what i should do with this ?
Oh, /g/, what have I done and gotten myself into now?
>>54406654
Either a Ti-36x Pro, or Casio FX-991EX.
They're easily the two best scientific calculators on the market right now, and each have pros / cons that make them about evenly matched, so it comes down to a matter of preference.
>>54411002
>$100 for the HP 50g
The fuck? It's $51 on US Amazon. Even converting to CAD it's still only $66.
Good calculator, but you dun got ripped off.
>>54411002
canadian money is really worthless lol, i thought you were getting ripped off, that's like $60 usd
>>54411002
You will have fun with this little machine. Learn RPL, it's easy and fun. Like Forth with some other stuff strapped on.
>50$ for a calculator
>>54412796
>>54412796
$50 for one of the best models is a pretty damned good deal. Just look at TI's prices for comparison.
>>54411087
thanks based JT
>>54399260
So I had a TI-83 and used it up until it broke in the middle of my freshman year of college. Since then, I've been using a mix between my phone and a small TI pocket calculator. Lately though, I've been longing to have a dedicated calculator. (Physics + Engineering here)
I have been thinking of picking up the HP 50g since I hear a lot of good shit about it, and it's way cheaper than the TI alternatives with the same features. I know fuck all about RPN though, so I was wondering if anybody wanted to shed some light on it.
How is the programming? Are there better alternatives?
>>54413390
With RPN, you perform calculations using a stack and a postfix notation.
It eliminates having to do intermediate scratchpaper work by pushing the burden of order of operations from the calculator to the user.
It also means you don't have to bother with parantheses.
>>54413441
Oh, that's pretty easy actually. I can't think of times when I would find it useful, but I'm sure I would find a way to make it so.
>>54413390
>I have been thinking of picking up the HP 50g since I hear a lot of good shit about it, and it's way cheaper than the TI alternatives with the same features. I know fuck all about RPN though, so I was wondering if anybody wanted to shed some light on it.
There are a few good videos out there, look up RPN tutorial on the Youtube. It will show you why people like RPN and how it's useful.
>How is the programming? Are there better alternatives?
The 50g comes with:
>User RPL
>System RPL
>Saturn assembly
>ARM assembly
All can be developed onboard with the very nice tools built into the OS. You can also get HPGCC and compile C programs for it, but RPL is a nice useful language which integrates with every corner of the system beautifully.
>>54413560
That's pretty cool. More I look at it, more I think it's just a damn fine calculator. (Especially since it's 50 bucks, and offers the same shit the TI-89 does at a fraction of the price.)
I think I'll pick it up.
Why has nobody created a graphing calculator emulator? Why are we forced to use these expensive, superfluous devices in the 2016?
>>54413745
They have, actually multiple people have. That doesn't stop people who prefer dedicated devices from buying real ones.
>>54413745
>superfluous
Call me when your smartphone runs for a year or ten without changing or charging the batteries.
There are 15c owners out there still working with the original batteries, 35 years later.
Just snagged a 16c in a lot of "junky old" calculators for $30.
>>54413783
That's nice and all. I'm not against using old tech. But there's no logic to forcing students and school systems to buy outrageously-priced dedicated calculators when the same calculations could be completed on a computer they've already purchased.
If you like old tech, I've got no problem, but the system is corrupt.
>>54413848
>the system is corrupt
More like it's easier to cheat with a fucking smartphone
>>54399556
>falling for a gimmick
I bet you bought one of those Nspire pieces of shit.
>>54413848
Nobody forces kids to use calculators, they can use pencil and paper too.
It's too easy to cheat even on a HP-50g if you turn step-by-step mode on, it will show you all the work for your math problem (all steps!).
>>54403256
Of course there is, the 50g is objectively better because it's actually real RPN and not limited shit like the Prime is.
>>54403256
The Prime's still in alpha, software quality sucks, tons of bugs, the fucking thing has a severely limited battery life, programming is awkward and you lose the ability to program on the fly right on the stack, etc etc.
Prime's a fucking abortion. Whoever decided that abandoning the primarily *PROFESSIONAL* engineering and sciences calculator market to instead try to compete in the TI DOMINATED education market should be shot. TI has that shit locked up, to the point that all major textbooks assume you have a TI and even put TI keystroke instructions in the books for you.
Prime has a good CAS (same as the 50g), it's fast, blah blah but it's not up to speed, it lacks a serial port, it's too big for what it is (all dat empty space!), etc. It's like they tried to smash together a bunch of off the shelf stuff and call it a 'system' but the system's parts interact very poorly with each other.
>>54413876
>>54414021
Students here are mandated to purchase a texas instruments graphing calculator. I understand the argument that it might be easier to cheat, but I'm sure there are ways to prevent that. Hell, I remember copying notes into my old graphing calculator in school.
What I don't undersrand is the price. How the hell does anyone justify such a price for an electronic device that has been in production for 15 years? I would bet that the cost to manufacturer them is somewhere between 3 and 7 dollars per unit.
>>54413560
Alright. I'm sold. It's 70 bucks cheaper than a Ti-89 for the same features, and I can still be babied by algebraic input while I learn RPN.
Cheers, anons. I'm excited about a fucking calculator.
>>54414180
I agree that TI's prices and schools specifically requiring TI calculators are both bullshit, but requiring a calculator in general I don't have much of an issue with.
>>54411087
You can't actually buy from HP directly from what I found so you have to go through third parties
But whatever I have a calculator now
>>54413810
lucky bastard
>>54404096
Kek
>>54404070
>Will probably get 35S
Don't. 35s is a huge disappointment. It looks good, but that is it. Get HP30b an do not be put off by "b" --- it is very decent non-graphing rpn programmable engineering calculator
My 12C came in last week and I just bought a 50G. Next on the list is a WP-34S
>>54399260
RPN was weird at first but hot damn it's hard to go to other calculators, and nowadays rather than opening a calculator on my computer to do something basic I reach for my HP because RPN is so comfy
>>54415172
>his OS doesn't have an RPN calculator built in
>83+
>84+ w/ Doors CS7.2
>Voyage 200
>eternally pissed the 84+CSE did not switch CPU or even fucking clock speed when the ez80 would have made it sing
come the fuck at me
>>54415261
>TI babbies need not apply
>>54415294
Yet here I am.
Your calculator a shit, its community a shit, and its software library a shit. Does it even have a networking protocol or decent 3D engines? M68K master race.
>>54415209
I mean, that kind of hampers the speed to have to click it in. The closest I've seen is command line RPN calculators but meh, they aren't good enough
btw is that OS X or a different *nix?
>>54415331
>caring about 3d engines in a calculator
Is this a new meme?
>>54415331
>networking protocol
Yes
>decent 3D engines
Do't know, don't care
I'd take a 12C over a TI calculator with all that.
>>54415360
>I mean, that kind of hampers the speed to have to click it in
Which is why you use the numpad. And yeah, it's El Capitan.
about to get my 50g for uni will it fuck me on my physics exam i have next week?
>>54415549
If you don't know RPN, then yeah.
Also if your professor doesn't allow graphing calculators on exams, then yeah.
>>54415386
>>54402433
I've just ended up using a TI84 emulator when I've needed one.
>>54415549
>i'm gonna take an exam with a new calculator i dont know how to use
you're gonna crash and burn dont do it
>>54415704
>>54415580
I just need to do sin cos x / for this one.
How hard can that shit be for RPN.
>>54415727
oh nevermind, the quick start guide explains that part pretty quick
>>54415727
You have to enter the number before pressing sin/cos function button.... What kind of physics exam are you taking??
>>54415761
The second one about electricity and shit
My final
>>54415787
Well make sure you're efficient with any kind of calculation then.
Also make sure you know how to enter numbers in scientific notation since you're going to be using e&m constants
>>54415886
Yeah I don't know of any time I don't have some micro or nano constant hanging around the numbers, those fuckers.
>>54415955
Also things like exponents, square root, etc. Just saying, since a new RPN user depending on how much they have practiced may trip up on those things.
I don't know how much time exactly you have to practice with it, but IMO if you don't know the button locations perfectly are completely used to the notation, I'd just stick with whatever calculator you were using before for this exam, then take the time to learn the HP after.
>>54415331
> Does it even have a networking protocol
HP-48 series calculators have many networking protocols and physical layers available to them. IR, serial, USB, and you can even run a TCP/IP stack on the calculator and use the Internet.
HP calculators were networking back in the 1970s.
>or decent 3D engines
It's not meant for 3D real time gaymen, the HPs are math machines. However, you've been able to plot 3D graphs since the 1990s (HP was first here) and manipulate them of course.
>M68K master race
The problem isn't the fucking processor you numbskull, it's TI. They've been taking every extreme measure they can in order to stop you from running your own code on the bare metal. Meanwhile HP gives you bare metal assembly language development and un-gimped RPL / System RPL out of the box.
One day TI will make some unbreakable DRM processor-based calcs, push them as cheating-proof, and your whole calculator community will be left in the dust.
HP: Here, have access to the hardware and execute any memory address directly if your really want to, you're the boss...
TI: LOL dude, brogramming! Let's hack our calculator and make a Game Boy! Brotastic!
>>54416060
Yeah I just lost my calculator recently only to notice the meme pop up here.
At least 50g has retard mode option.
>>54416081
Seriously just watch a tutorial video and turn RPN on, in 15 minutes flat it'll feel 100% natural.
>>54416081
I just remembered it has an algebraic mode.
So yeah if you mess up with RPN, just switch to that
Know the button locations though.
What's the point of getting a graphing calculator with graphing software being so accessible?
>>54416328
I don't know.
I never use the graphing function of my 50g, I only have it because it's a good RPN calculator that doesn't cost $300 used.
Now that I know about those SwissMicros clones of old scientific HPs I will probably get one of those.
>>54416328
Why carry a laptop if you can just carry a calculator?
>>54416415
Indeed.
>>54402433
Wolfram Alpha
I use microsoft mathematics, I don't really do anything but add small numbers together.
>>54404938
>>54407407
I was planni ng on buying these instead of of the TI30X IIS, which I've used pretty much all my life. Seems like this casio has some more functions to it. One of the amazon reviews says that if you're doing something, and the calculator goes to sleep, it forgets what you were doing unlike the TI which has memory from sleep. Is that true?
Like go enter 1+1 into the calculator, and then let it go to sleep, is 1+1=2 still on the screen when it wakes?
>>54399556
my nigga
>>54399594
>>54399668
just works, my man
>>54399620
>>54399457
can confirm, does calculations
>>54399690
>>54399732
>>54399762
>>54399840
>>54401068
>>54401111
>>54401175
>>54401272
>>54404070
>>54404112
>>54404180
kill yourself, faggot
>>54418404
Looks like you just choose a bunch of random posts and replied to them with random shit, then choose a random image.
Off yourself.
>>54418622
not really.
the first one is because it's funny that who cares the resolution of a calculator
the second two, because they are using android calculators.
the third, because they are using non-calculators in general and I wanted to continue being a dick to autists.
and the picture is richard stallman, you fucking idiot. not random on /g/
>>54418659
>the third, because they are
fuck the third was my highschool calculator and the fourth was non-calculators
>inb4 yeah i'm this autistic
>>54418659
>because they are using non calculators in general
Thanks for confirming my assumption that you're a retard.
Also, just for next time, you're supposed to choose an image that is relevant to your post or relevant to the thread. Stallman is 100% to both your post and the thread. We're not talking about free software here and as such, within the frame of reference of this thread, it is in fact random. Simply because he is relevant to the board doesn't mean it compliments your post. In fact, it reduces the quality of your post due to previously mentioned randomness. Not that your post needed help on being low quality. The fact that you mass quoted and made extremely low effort replies is enough. Nobody likes that in a post.
Try again next time.
>>54418101
>small numbers
>not having a 128 bit pocket calculator
>>54418915
>inkjet paper buttons
haha
>>54399260
>Middle school
>get iPod Touch 2G
>find an HP-48 emu
>cool as fuck
>HS
>Didn't want a fucking TI-84, can't use iPod touch because muh wifi, teachers would just balk at an HP calculator
>this nspire shit looks p. cool
>get a 1st generation nspire, the one with the dual keypads in case a teacher spergs out
>years later
>get not good math score on SAT
>tell parents I'll do better with a BRAND NEW NSPIRE CX CAS
>they believe me
>I actually do, but not by much
Once I saw this thread, I went and popped some batteries in my dad's HP16C. It was a gift from some NASA scientists he interned under.
I like how they keyboard is a superset of the instructions available, rather than an abstraction over abstracted abstract interactions like modern computing devices.
I'd like to buy a recent-enough HP RPN calculator for /g/ autism points, maybe a 50G.
>>54399299
long live the ti89
>>54420735
>/k/
go away mr. shit taste
also here's a clip
>paying $50 for a calculator
>>54422075
Why are the making fun of the HP users?
TI babies literally have to pay $100+ for their inferior product.
>>54402433
Calculator++ is really neat feature-wise.
