Is RPN still relevant?

[Commie]

(12-17-2023 06:30 PM)cdmackay Wrote:  Here in the UK, it seems that algebraic "won" simply because almost no-one learns about RPN. So whether RPN is better, easier etc isn't relevant.

Casio have a monopoly in schools; that's perpetuated by the schools, telling the students which calculator to buy, or even selling it to them. You don't want your child to be the only one in the class with a different model, let alone a different type.

The thing is though, you can't expect a school kid to start calculating in rpn, however you can sell rpn to graduates because of shear power of rpn. So long as the user understands the 4 level stack properly. There are 10's of hp45 on sale on Ebay fetching asking prices of around £150+ for full kit.In contrast to this the red led ti30 are asking around £20 for same era of calculator.

As far as Apple Mac/os is concerned, Apple obviously pay developers good sums of money for hp calculator apps in an attempt to bolster sales of Apple products.