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[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

(09-19-2018 02:00 PM)Dwight Sturrock Wrote:  It’s us engineering & math types that are gradually abandoning RPN.

We've had this topic dozens of time before, yet I repeat my little point again: In my part of the world and during the years it would have mattered to me, the "engineering&math types" who were high school, college and university students simply could not afford RPN calculators. For some reason only known to HP they chose to market their products at two or three times what the competition asked for theirs. Had, in the all-important period between 1975 and 1985, HP sold their RPN calculators at the same price level as Ti, Casio and everybody else, then maybe today high school students would use HP. The question "which one is better" never mattered.

Regards,
Max

NB: And I still fail to see why, using an RPN calculator, one solves a problem exactly as one does with paper and pencil. Not me. Maybe because I learnt how to do calculations with pen and paper from teachers who never could afford RPN calculators themselves?