Hypothetical WP 35S

[walter b]

(01-19-2016 03:25 AM)Joseph_21sv Wrote:  

1. Completely
2. Perhaps Casio may license the Classwiz design
3. • Better alphanumeric display
   • Softkeys
   • Easy access to external connection port
   • Memory
   • Colored display segments/Graphical display (...)
     
4. ... any variant of the HP-17bii has the advantage that it can show softkeys and alphanumeric display simultaneously and the full two-line display of that calculator fully advances over that of the WP 34s. Moreover, a DM-35L, if it is to be programmable, just makes no earthly sense to me as a one-line calculator because the programmable HP 35s has a two-line display. But the question there is: Will Swiss Micros ever produce a two-line calculator?
   Also, what exactly is the meaning of "more arcane math"?
   

Thanks for your list. Seems you may get almost everything you request but the colored display segments.

Regarding your point 4: I admit I simply called the project 35S since its 34S + 1. No thoughts at all about HP's 35S. For the display, please see my previous post of today. And finally about math: the WP 34S contains some mathematical functions no other pocket calculator contained so far, AFAIK (e.g. Gudermannian, Lambert's W, regularized Beta, etc.); this is a subset of its function set I would not extend without need - or (as another member wrote): we don't need a canned encyclopedia. Hope this explains the matter.

d:-)

BTW, thanks for quoting my post entirely. But that's really not necessary.

Edit: Regarding your point 2: Looking at its dimensions (165.5x77x11 mm), the Casio Classwiz belongs to the battleship class of calcs IMHO. Too large for my shirt pocket.