Introduction and Thankyou

[Zac Bruce]

That full moon thing is cool, very clever. I think I had come across that posted somewhere else around here.

I've never had a play with the Solve App on the Prime. I basically used the Prime only to do hypothesis tests, and some simple linear regression/2 var summary statistics stuff.
I'd have to have a look at the manual again, I'm sure it could do some really cool stuff. I just had a quick look on the calculator then and managed to break something (touch screen not working, couldn't exit the app) and had to do a reset!

I did muck around with the spreadsheet app for a little while, I remember it was a real pain trying to work out why the formulas weren't working (syntax error) when Home was set up for RPN, and the manual was no help, which was disappointing. I can't remember now whether I ended up with a better work around than having to hit the CAS button when inputting formulas.

I got a reply back from the head of the business school at my uni, and he explained that "in general we do not allow advanced financial calculators"

I guess the 12c came in on the right side of advanced for their standards, even though it is programmable. It seems highly doubtful that they will come at the idea of allowing any of the variations of 17b though, so looks like I'll be sticking to learning the 12c. They also allow the 10bii but my mind is already thinking so much in RPN. I haven't had much of a look at how the feature set compared between the two calculators. Maybe if there are things that the 10bii calculators do much better than the 12c I'll have to tearfully leave the 12c a while and put some effort in to learning how to use the 10bii+ instead.