WTB cheap but decent Scientific/Engineering Calculator

Caffeine_Vampire

As above please.

Cheers.

Devil#20

Get an HP with RPN (Reverse Polish Notation). All RPN calculators work the same irrespective of manufacturer. I hate picking up a calculator and having to work out what perverse logic they use to enter calculations without having to do a few test calcs to start with first. Once you get used to RPN you'll not bother with anything else. 

Caffeine_Vampire

Devil#20 said:

Get an HP with RPN (Reverse Polish Notation). All RPN calculators work the same irrespective of manufacturer. I hate picking up a calculator and having to work out what perverse logic they use to enter calculations without having to do a few test calcs to start with first. Once you get used to RPN you'll not bother with anything else. 

Good advice I intend to take with thanks

beed84

Obviously it depends on your needs, but would the iPhone’s scientific calculator suffice? That’s assuming you have an iPhone.

joeW

I still have a graphic one from the early 90’s - still love it. 

Caffeine_Vampire

beed84 said:

Obviously it depends on your needs, but would the iPhone’s scientific calculator suffice? That’s assuming you have an iPhone.

Erm.. I have a talk and text drug dealer type thing and the tablet I use was previously owned by Moses.

beed84

Caffeine_Vampire said:

beed84 said:

Obviously it depends on your needs, but would the iPhone’s scientific calculator suffice? That’s assuming you have an iPhone.

Erm.. I have a talk and text drug dealer type thing and the tablet I use was previously owned by Moses.

 Bummer. I could recommend you some good chalk until you get sorted?

jackio

80085

Caffeine_Vampire

jackio said:

80085

Oh they were so the best days!!

jackio

Ha ha yes yup. I'm chuckling to myself at the childishness

thermionic

I have a great one from my university days - it got me through my physics degree(s) as it had all the useful physical constants at the touch of a shift key. The gravitational contant, speed of light, Plank’s constant, elementary charge, electron mass, vacuum electric permittivity etc. I have no need to use these values in calculations now, but I can’t get rid of it.

Caffeine_Vampire

thermionic said:

I have a great one from my university days - it got me through my physics degree(s) as it had all the useful physical constants at the touch of a shift key. The gravitational contant, speed of light, Plank’s constant, elementary charge, electron mass, vacuum electric permittivity etc. I have no need to use these values in calculations now, but I can’t get rid of it.

Not even to trade for a Tesla watch that transforms into a Go-bot?

robinbowes

jackio said:

80085

58008, surely?

Sporky

robinbowes said:

jackio said:

80085

58008, surely?

No, the former is a well-regarded Texas Instruments scientific calculator, the latter is a much lower grade unit. 

nero1701

I lectured engineering for years, FX85GT always satisfied my needs

the_jaffa

I've bought a couple of Casio fx-115MS from ebay secondhand for about a fiver. Use them every day for calculations in my job.

jackio

robinbowes said:

jackio said:

80085

58008, surely?

Yeah, I was a bit shite at maths, including this cockup

Revolutions

I really want the teenage engineering medieval calculator for some reason.

Revolutions

Caffeine_Vampire

Revolutions said:

Does it have a Cosplay button?