is it worth buying an hp 48gx or 50g in this 2023?
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01-30-2023, 03:21 PM
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is it worth buying an hp 48gx or 50g in this 2023?
hello group, sometimes when I see the new color and touch calculators I wonder if you can still be proud with one of these 2 excellent calculators if you see it in a practical way, given the advancement of the new models
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01-30-2023, 03:44 PM
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RE: is it worth buying an hp 48gx or 50g in this 2023?
Great calculators, both of them.
Try and install on your phone the EMU48 application, that replicates the HP48-50g (& other models), but run 100 x faster than the physical, original calculators. Gil |
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01-31-2023, 04:16 AM
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RE: is it worth buying an hp 48gx or 50g in this 2023?
Greetings,
If you are into surveying software, I would recommend Jacob Wall's excellent program Cogo+ Pro. Recently I was looking for updates and noticed that is free of charge now, some years ago it was something like $275 USD. A 50G cannot run a survey instrument, however with Cogo+ Pro you can do comps that you used to do on a TDS48 but you are able save your points as ASCII or DXF or KML or Lat/Long files, store them on a 1 or 2 GB Secure Digital card that the 50G accepts, pull out said SD card and transfer back and forth with a computer. If you do coordinate comps and have a 50G...why not? check out Simple Geospatial Solutions at https://sgss.ca/index.html and scroll down to 50G software. If you want his software for the HP Prime, that you pay for. Chad HP 45, HP 67, HP 41's C, CV & CX, HP 42s, HP48SX, HP48GX, HP 50G, HP Prime, I am a big fan of Thomas Okken's Free42 loaded on a smartphone & then punching in my old 42 survey software from the late 80's and early 90's. Much of which is available on hpcalc.org (RIP Ted & Thanks still!) Being able to do things like grade intersections quickly on your phone can be handy. |
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02-02-2023, 04:10 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-02-2023 04:11 AM by johnb.)
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RE: is it worth buying an hp 48gx or 50g in this 2023?
One of the machines in my regular "daily driver" rotation is a 48g.
Even though I now use less than 10% of its overall functionality, it's still a joy to use, for its multi-level display and unlimited stack. I have an interval arithmetic library I wrote for it: not perfect, but still very good for when I am doing calculations with lopsided uncertainties or different ones in different steps. The built-in date/time math is also easier to use than on some of my other models, so it's my go-to calculator for that as well. I've never tried carrying around a calculator this large, but mostly I am near a desk at most times now, and can easily just reach for it if I need it. So, yeah, 48gx or 50g+, still a good investment! Daily drivers: 15c, 32sII, 35s, 41cx, 48g, WP 34s/31s. Favorite: 16c. Latest: 15ce, 48s, 50g. Gateway drug: 28s found in yard sale ~2009. |
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02-02-2023, 05:12 AM
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RE: is it worth buying an hp 48gx or 50g in this 2023?
(01-30-2023 03:21 PM)hpmin48gx Wrote: hello group, sometimes when I see the new color and touch calculators I wonder if you can still be proud with one of these 2 excellent calculators if you see it in a practical way, given the advancement of the new models ... when I see the new [4090 GPU with 24-core CPU processor and 64 GB RAM] ... I wonder if you can still be proud with [any hand held calculator] if you see it in a practical way, given the advancement of [Moores law] It really depends on your perspective. I like my calculators just as much, and besides, I don't get to enjoy handing my computer to people and counting to 10 before they say "Hey, there's no EQUALS button on this.." 17bii | 32s | 32sii | 41c | 41cv | 41cx | 42s | 48g | 48g+ | 48gx | 50g | 30b |
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02-02-2023, 09:11 AM
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RE: is it worth buying an hp 48gx or 50g in this 2023?
(02-02-2023 05:12 AM)Allen Wrote: I like my calculators just as much, and besides, I don't get to enjoy handing my computer to people and counting to 10 before they say "Hey, there's no EQUALS button on this.."Last time I experienced this was in senior high school but I still cherish the memory of having a "lend-proof" calculator. |
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02-03-2023, 02:39 AM
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RE: is it worth buying an hp 48gx or 50g in this 2023?
(01-30-2023 03:44 PM)Gil Wrote: Great calculators, both of them. Emu48 has been my "calculator" for casual use for a while now. Having grown up on 28/48/50 lineage, I love being able to use 48g key layout with real speed. |
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02-03-2023, 09:06 AM
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RE: is it worth buying an hp 48gx or 50g in this 2023?
(02-03-2023 02:39 AM)polbit Wrote:(01-30-2023 03:44 PM)Gil Wrote: Great calculators, both of them. I am using Em48 regularly. The HP50g version has enough big integer stuff that I can do reasonably serious number theory. It's much easier to program the Pari. My only problem is getting really large integers out to text. I have been kludging it by displaying the integers in 15-digit chunks (or so) and using a screen capture that's on the phone. |
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02-03-2023, 11:05 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-03-2023 11:29 AM by Wes Loewer.)
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RE: is it worth buying an hp 48gx or 50g in this 2023?
(02-03-2023 09:06 AM)ttw Wrote: My only problem is getting really large integers out to text. I have been kludging it by displaying the integers in 15-digit chunks (or so) and using a screen capture that's on the phone. You should be able to use the Copy Stack feature to copy the large integer in one big chunk. Edit: Seems that Copy Stack can only copy up to 127 characters. I wonder if that is a bug or just a limitation. Still, copying 127 digits at a time is better than 15. |
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02-03-2023, 12:39 PM
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RE: is it worth buying an hp 48gx or 50g in this 2023?
(02-03-2023 11:05 AM)Wes Loewer Wrote: Seems that Copy Stack can only copy up to 127 characters. I wonder if that is a bug or just a limitation. Still, copying 127 digits at a time is better than 15. If you convert it to a string before copying, you should be able to get everything in one step. Example (exact mode, of course): 999 FACT →STR <Copy Stack from EMU48's Edit menu> Pasting into a text editor of your choice should result in the entire string of 2565 digits. |
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02-03-2023, 01:47 PM
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RE: is it worth buying an hp 48gx or 50g in this 2023?
If you work with numerical matrix / eigenvalues / vectors etc then it is an excellent and quick calculator with some extra software. Especially if you install hpgcc3 and libraries with software programmed in C.
Gjermund |
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02-05-2023, 03:11 PM
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RE: is it worth buying an hp 48gx or 50g in this 2023?
(02-03-2023 12:39 PM)DavidM Wrote:(02-03-2023 11:05 AM)Wes Loewer Wrote: Seems that Copy Stack can only copy up to 127 characters. I wonder if that is a bug or just a limitation. Still, copying 127 digits at a time is better than 15. Thanks. It looks like this will work. |
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