What is a modern-day HP-16C?

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(08-22-2018 04:50 PM)Dave Britten Wrote:  The TI-86 is really solid for this kind of thing, though calling it modern-day at 21-years old is a stretch. But it can handle 16 digits in hex, bin, and oct modes, and can do And, Or, Xor, Not, and shifts and rotates. Plus it's programmable, of course.

oh, sorry, didn't mean to imply it was modern! It is half my age

The TI-86 is utterly superb as a general math platform, huge number of functions, I believe oddly enough a few more than the TI-89's, and the LCD is superior to the 89's miniature non-changeable font. Use it a lot for doing Linear algebra as a kind of hobby and as an adjunct to Machine learning. Picked it up Mint with the nice translucent blue limited edition cover for approx US $15 including postage! It's only weakness is non-RPN, and I may buy an HP-50G simply because I can calculate in around half the time using RPN, far, far easier, and good to check intermediate results of course.

The HP-16C I have found to be just a fantastic piece of machinery for low level quick checks, address manipulations, integer arithmetic in the bases. Although it is weak in FP don't use that often anyhow.

It is my favourite HP, most people who see it think of it as an strange size calculator (or mistake it for an HP12C if they think they are clever). The few (two) people who have gasped, have oddly enough, been pretty well respected Computer Scientists at my local University.