The actuel Prime future...

[Don Shepherd]

(08-26-2014 04:17 PM)walter b Wrote:  What's the 'education market' according to you? Do you talk about students or students? The little or the big ones? (I love the ambiguities of that language.)

Education market = elementary school, middle school, high school, and university.

They all have students.

There is no ambiguity.

Quote:I concur that students at school (up to the age of let's say 13 IIRC) don't need a calculator at all ...

Don't stop at 13, older teenagers don't need them either. Possibly only students bound for the engineering sciences, which is a rather small percentage of students these days.

Quote:you don't want to fall back to table books, do you?)

Hey, it worked for us, didn't it?

Quote:And in science and engineering at university, well, banning calculators would be off real world - your studies shall prepare you for professional life after all.

My, my, what did those poor engineers who graduated prior to 1972 do without calculators?

Quote:Thus, there is a market for solid calculators

I'm sure some said that about slide rules back in 1972!