Modern Electronics (was Re: List charter mods & headcount... ;

14 Jul 2004

...
   (hence the
broken screen...) has x^y and x ROOT y,
 10^x and log, e^x and ln, trig functions and their
 inverses and the hyperbolic version, and standard
 deviation.  My Casio has most of those, except x ROOT y. The Sharp does everything
you 
Some of my HPs have all of those, _and_ (x ROOT y) and 1/x y^x (it's an 
RPN machine...) do not always give the same answer. No, not a bug, the 
former gives the real root if possible, the latter gives the principle 
value (which may well be a complex number).

I find I can't use anything but an RPN calculator now. It's just so much 
simpler once you've learnt it. That's why I have a few dozen HPs (LED and 
LCD models). 

-tony

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