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(...) Not only that, but your remedial math students are a lot less likely to try to borrow your calculator when they forget to bring theirs to class! : ) Maggie C. (27 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Bram Lambrecht wrote in message <20000326.125628.509...no.com>... (...) So true, though these days I mostly use a non-RPN calculator. I keep watching for a modestly priced RPN calculator, but it just doesn't seem like it will ever happen (HP's (...) (27 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I use one of those (48G). Once you've used Reverse Polish Notation, you can't ever go back... --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (27 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Maggie Cambron wrote in message (...) recall (...) You can also do multiplication and division (and addition and subtraction I think - don't remember what all scales are on the rule). Also roots and powers (in fact most calculators perform roots (...) (27 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That's what we used them for-- mainly logarithms as I recall (and I don't recall much!). Maggie (27 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Wow, interesting site! As it turns out my calculator wasn't one of the earliest after all but a second generation (now I don't feel so old!). But what really surprises me is that the one I use now (HP 15C) has been discontinued for over ten (...) (27 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Gee - in the last year or so I threw out my HP 9830A because something fell on the keyboard and broke a few key caps off beyond repair... brought tears to my eyes to find it broken from an avalance in storage... I had the plotter and the wide (...) (27 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) i do use the web Shiri but i tend 2 read by NG In Batches Of 20 ib reversese Chronological order Ravi (27 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Wow. This is a holiday I've never heard of. I read a lot, but I have never come across this. Thank you all for teaching me something today. (I'm serious.) I'm Lutheran and from Texas, and as much as I read, I've never heard of this. I hope you all (...) (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Depends on what you mean by 'devil'. Do you mean the guy in a red suit with horns and a pointy tail, carrying a trident? Yeah, that probably is non- Jewish. Non-Christian, too, although it's a bit of mythology made up *by* Christians (I (...) (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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