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  • The 1990s era Casio I inherited from my late father has developed a defect in the LCD screen; and a newer one I got at the local supermarket (intended for high school students) although just right for A/AS level exams lacks some useful functions for computer science (such as hex, octal and binary) and doesn’t have much programming capabilities.

    I am considering treating myself to a new one; as TBH its about time I actually understood a bit more of the numbers behind what I do such as converting milliwatts/watts to dBW for radio communications; working out lag on telecoms circuits by comparing this with the speed of light etc; as well as impedance matching in electronics.

    Any of the clever folk here have suggestions about which models to get? I originally thought the TI and HP programmables were unobtanium here in Europe but you can purchase them onliine (quite like the idea of those with an entire Z80 CPU built in to them 😉 )

    I’ve noticed the ones that used to cost about €300 are way cheaper

    You mean to tell me you can’t even do those simple calculations in your head GL? I’m disappointed in you sir.

    Lol that is the sort of stuff my Dad used to say – although (some time in the 90s) he finally admitted he barely understood some bits of maths himself, in spite of once being a maths teacher and working on some particularly complex industrial processes to test the quality of various types of engine oil (used in anything from container ships to Formula 1 cars) for BP

    Until the early 1980s (and even the first few years of high school) my generation had to use books of logarithms, sines/cosines etc (older folk used slide rules).

    Although there are plenty of PC-based calculators and of course Excel I am a bit wary of these as they can contain bugs and it is easy to mistype numbers/click on the wrong thing…

    When doing trigonometry in year 8-9 I believe 1 lad forgot his scientific calculator and was presented with a LOG book from fuck knows which century B.C. to use for that lesson lol. Doubt he forgot it again cos he looked fucking sick.

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