[A83] Re: TI-86 with flash petition

[A83] Re: TI-86 with flash petition

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• Subject: [A83] Re: TI-86 with flash petition
• From: Gavin Olson <gtolson@snet.net>
• Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 21:02:42 -0400
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At 06:16 PM 6/19/02 -0500, you wrote:

>Yeah.  Right.  Doing math on a PDA sucks.  It doesn't matter how great the
>software is, or how big the screen is, or anything else like that, because
>the input device is not suited to math.  I think it's even easier to use a
>calculator keypad than a keyboard for math, so in that respect, a calculator
>would beat out a laptop.

Indeed.  To crunch numbers, I reach for the RPN next to the computer (I 
hate RPN) before using the calculator on my computer.  THe only way the 
bigger screen helps is to have a Pretty Print see if you typed it in right 
(parentheses, order of operations, etc.), and with experience you learn to 
put polynomials in denominators in parentheses anyway.

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