hpmuseum is very expensive !!

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(12-30-2017 11:38 PM)Csaba Tizedes Wrote:  

(12-29-2017 11:34 AM)grsbanks Wrote:  I actually meant an fx-3650PII. Handheld with twin power: solar and 1xLR44 cell. Given the power requirement I doubt it'll be a very fast device and with only 6 variables and a few hundred program steps I don't think I'll be doing any really advanced programming with this thing

It should be delivered today so I don't yet have it but I have already downloaded and read through the (60-page) manual.

Advanced. What does it mean advanced? It depends only on the application. You can calculate the pressure drop of your sprinkler system with it and you can select a proper pump, but if you calculate with it a pneumatic conveying system from ESP to silo station that is more 'advanced'? The two program is same - but your sprinkler system approx. 1'000.- USD and the pneumatic conveying system approx. 5'000'000.- USD

It has more program steps than HP12C - which is more advanced? It has alphanumeric program editor, 6 regression models, base arithmetics, complex number support - is it more advanced?

Some people cannot solve simple engineering problems with Maple or Mathematica, some engineers builds power plants with a pocket calculator - which is 'advanced'?

Csaba

Interesting point, Csaba. I'm sure this topic has been covered before but if you have a link to it I'd be interested.

Kind of like the debate (which I think had been settled for several decades) regarding what is a calculator and what is a computer.

.....Art