App, or Pocket calculator?
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It feels like a David vs Goliath thing. In the midst of all the horsepower at my workstation (PC, MacBook Pro, cell phone, tablet) I still reach for my 1980's vintage solar powered Casio Fx-411 for a quick calculation or decimal/hex conversion. Each time, a small part of me is wants to fire up a spreadsheet, desktop program, or mobile device app. But before I can make that call, my Casio has completed the job and gone back to its parking spot. It could be nostalgia leading me to my Casio, or it may be as simple as the right tool for the job. Anyone else have the same little mental battle when you reach for the good old calculator?
I hear you. My 80's Radio Shack Programmer's Calculator includes a stopwatch and a lap counter; faster than adding timing code for gauging response times.
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I frequently pull out my cell phone for this purpose. I have a RPN calculator on it. I also use the Windows calculator if I'm at my laptop.
Found an emulator for my old HP 41CX on it. Still have the CX (batteries out, of course), but only use the phone anymore.
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I go for the calculator (rather than phone) for ease of use. By the time I get my phone awake, PIN entered, or biometric scan, and swipe to an App; my Casio has already found the hex for 1048658.
The number you really want is
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I frequently pull out my cell phone for this purpose. I have a RPN calculator on it. I also use the Windows calculator if I'm at my laptop.
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How far back in history do you have to go to find anyone under 30 who knows what is meant by "RPN"?
Would have said me, but, well, I'm not under 30...
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It feels like a David vs Goliath thing. In the midst of all the horsepower at my workstation (PC, MacBook Pro, cell phone, tablet) I still reach for my 1980's vintage solar powered Casio Fx-411 for a quick calculation or decimal/hex conversion. Each time, a small part of me is wants to fire up a spreadsheet, desktop program, or mobile device app. But before I can make that call, my Casio has completed the job and gone back to its parking spot. It could be nostalgia leading me to my Casio, or it may be as simple as the right tool for the job. Anyone else have the same little mental battle when you reach for the good old calculator?
If my dear old HP48SX didn't have a buggered screen, I'd use that. Now, I use PCalc on my phone. All hail RPN.
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It feels like a David vs Goliath thing. In the midst of all the horsepower at my workstation (PC, MacBook Pro, cell phone, tablet) I still reach for my 1980's vintage solar powered Casio Fx-411 for a quick calculation or decimal/hex conversion. Each time, a small part of me is wants to fire up a spreadsheet, desktop program, or mobile device app. But before I can make that call, my Casio has completed the job and gone back to its parking spot. It could be nostalgia leading me to my Casio, or it may be as simple as the right tool for the job. Anyone else have the same little mental battle when you reach for the good old calculator?
I know what you mean, I keep a Casio fx?? in my case and use it when doing Resistance calculations, frequency / lenght of antenna calcs, I tend use Excel when capacitance needs to be calculated due to very large and very small numbers needed. I suppose it comes from Exams when you were only allowed a calculator. The new Casio's employ a method of Visually Perfect Maths, doing it in the right order. Just seems wrong, found the last few FX992's that I had at Uni (before it got lost in celebrations of the last Control exam was over) available at Maplin (I miss them) on clearance. :laugh:
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It feels like a David vs Goliath thing. In the midst of all the horsepower at my workstation (PC, MacBook Pro, cell phone, tablet) I still reach for my 1980's vintage solar powered Casio Fx-411 for a quick calculation or decimal/hex conversion. Each time, a small part of me is wants to fire up a spreadsheet, desktop program, or mobile device app. But before I can make that call, my Casio has completed the job and gone back to its parking spot. It could be nostalgia leading me to my Casio, or it may be as simple as the right tool for the job. Anyone else have the same little mental battle when you reach for the good old calculator?
And how often do you need to do a decimal to hex conversion these days?
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It feels like a David vs Goliath thing. In the midst of all the horsepower at my workstation (PC, MacBook Pro, cell phone, tablet) I still reach for my 1980's vintage solar powered Casio Fx-411 for a quick calculation or decimal/hex conversion. Each time, a small part of me is wants to fire up a spreadsheet, desktop program, or mobile device app. But before I can make that call, my Casio has completed the job and gone back to its parking spot. It could be nostalgia leading me to my Casio, or it may be as simple as the right tool for the job. Anyone else have the same little mental battle when you reach for the good old calculator?
I have Microsoft Calculator on my taskbar. It is perfect for smaller calculations. For larger, more involved tasks I use a Canon MP11DX which allows me to print a paper tape, so I can check what I have done, in case I "Fat-Fingered" something, or lose my place. I would say use what you are most comfortable with. :)
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Have a look at SpeedCrunch.[^].
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And how often do you need to do a decimal to hex conversion these days?
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
Frequently. Or binary/hex conversion. Last week I needed to double-check that I had the correct hex values for decoding UTF-8 characters.
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And how often do you need to do a decimal to hex conversion these days?
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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It feels like a David vs Goliath thing. In the midst of all the horsepower at my workstation (PC, MacBook Pro, cell phone, tablet) I still reach for my 1980's vintage solar powered Casio Fx-411 for a quick calculation or decimal/hex conversion. Each time, a small part of me is wants to fire up a spreadsheet, desktop program, or mobile device app. But before I can make that call, my Casio has completed the job and gone back to its parking spot. It could be nostalgia leading me to my Casio, or it may be as simple as the right tool for the job. Anyone else have the same little mental battle when you reach for the good old calculator?
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How far back in history do you have to go to find anyone under 30 who knows what is meant by "RPN"?
I'm not 30 yet And not only do I know the meaning but I also used it for a while :~
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It feels like a David vs Goliath thing. In the midst of all the horsepower at my workstation (PC, MacBook Pro, cell phone, tablet) I still reach for my 1980's vintage solar powered Casio Fx-411 for a quick calculation or decimal/hex conversion. Each time, a small part of me is wants to fire up a spreadsheet, desktop program, or mobile device app. But before I can make that call, my Casio has completed the job and gone back to its parking spot. It could be nostalgia leading me to my Casio, or it may be as simple as the right tool for the job. Anyone else have the same little mental battle when you reach for the good old calculator?
Hey! I got same calculator. Still works.
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How far back in history do you have to go to find anyone under 30 who knows what is meant by "RPN"?
"Really Perplexing Notation?" :laugh:
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It feels like a David vs Goliath thing. In the midst of all the horsepower at my workstation (PC, MacBook Pro, cell phone, tablet) I still reach for my 1980's vintage solar powered Casio Fx-411 for a quick calculation or decimal/hex conversion. Each time, a small part of me is wants to fire up a spreadsheet, desktop program, or mobile device app. But before I can make that call, my Casio has completed the job and gone back to its parking spot. It could be nostalgia leading me to my Casio, or it may be as simple as the right tool for the job. Anyone else have the same little mental battle when you reach for the good old calculator?
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It feels like a David vs Goliath thing. In the midst of all the horsepower at my workstation (PC, MacBook Pro, cell phone, tablet) I still reach for my 1980's vintage solar powered Casio Fx-411 for a quick calculation or decimal/hex conversion. Each time, a small part of me is wants to fire up a spreadsheet, desktop program, or mobile device app. But before I can make that call, my Casio has completed the job and gone back to its parking spot. It could be nostalgia leading me to my Casio, or it may be as simple as the right tool for the job. Anyone else have the same little mental battle when you reach for the good old calculator?
I use Chrome. There is always a browser tab open so why not use it. You could simply bookmark this in any browser and there you have it: [google calculator - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=google+calculator)
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It feels like a David vs Goliath thing. In the midst of all the horsepower at my workstation (PC, MacBook Pro, cell phone, tablet) I still reach for my 1980's vintage solar powered Casio Fx-411 for a quick calculation or decimal/hex conversion. Each time, a small part of me is wants to fire up a spreadsheet, desktop program, or mobile device app. But before I can make that call, my Casio has completed the job and gone back to its parking spot. It could be nostalgia leading me to my Casio, or it may be as simple as the right tool for the job. Anyone else have the same little mental battle when you reach for the good old calculator?
A really old story (but it is real!): I was in high school when the very first calculators started arriving. There were the budget '4-function' versions, with +-*/, and the expensive '5-function' versions which could also do square root. One of my classmates bought a 4-function budget model, with a blank square in the position of the square root button of the 4-function model. He was hoping that if he cut a hole there, it might allow him to solder a cable pair to the circuit board for a miniature push button he had in his toolbox. So he dug out his scalpel to cut through the front plate plastic. ... Out popped a square root button! They hadn't even cared to remove the button, but simply pressed it down under the front plate. Once the button was released, it worked perfectly fine, and my classmate had a 5-function calculator for the price of a 4-function model.
