Preferred Model for Quick Number Crunching

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Good morning,

I am one of the "Other" voters. Old habits die hard and I used calculators long before all the calculators in the list of choices came out. I did not even own one of these until I purchased some of them for my collection in the rather recent past. So I basically only tried them out and occasionally place one on my desk, but this is it. No real use and one of the reasons why I couldn't care less about the Swiss Micros calculators, as good as they might be.

At work I keep a Ti-85, that I bought on eBay for 1 Euro 15 years ago, in what would be the glove box in a car for some useful calculations about refueling (mainly to exclude mistakes due the mess they made in aviation with mixing all kinds of units) and air data. For everying else I use my phone, usually the native bulit-in calculator and not some emulated model from HP or Ti. Or whatever happens to lie in reach. Right now that is mostly an HP-11C, not collectible due to some LCD bleeding but still working and quite useful.

And one more thing, slightly off-topic: For me, "number crunching" always had the meaning of "the large-scale processing of numerical data". This is the definition in the Collins English Dictionary that my wife, who teaches english at school, uses for work. Therefore my choice for "Quick Number Crunching" would be the HP Frontier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_(supercomputer)) :-)
Unfortunately none of them have turned up on eBay yet.

Regards
Max