7 Jan
2014
7 Jan
'14
11:45 a.m.
I will not comment about the niceness of Ken's
reply, but I will
comment that some of it is just hopelessly outdated. People in
business - lawyers, bankers, real estate agents, etc. - do not really
use calculators anymore, RPN or otherwise. They have not for the past
10 or 15 years. The laptop computer has well matured, and these days
How can you possibly make such a sweeping statement unless you know every
businessman in the world, or at least know the practices in every major
country of the world?
_Every_ professional scientist ant enginener that I know uses a
calcualtor. Of course they use PCs too -- they use the msot approprate
tool for the job.
I am told by a friend who works for a banking company in the City of
London (anthough not as a banker) that HP12Cs are very common in such
estalishments. Actually,m it's not uncommon to see a cashier or manager
in a high street bank with an HP12C on their desk.
-tony