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For me, it’s the TI-84.

>> No.16575487

I have never used a handheld calculator since high school, i feel in uni it's either so trivial only pen and paper are needed, or you need some tool like Matlab or Julia

>> No.16575544
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16575544

Why do you learn (or maybe why do schools force) a useless language which has no function outside of that proprietary machine? Just learn python or some shit and do everything.
For school purposes picrel is good enough

>> No.16575558

>>16575487
I never stopped using my TI-89 as a physics major. It was my closest buddy throughout my university career.

>> No.16575912
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>>16575445
>color
slop

for me it was this bad boy.
The TI-86 was also nice, and of course the TI-89 was a king.

>> No.16575915

>>16575544
>Why do you learn (or maybe why do schools force) a useless language which has no function outside of that proprietary machine?
what? z80 processors were in all kinds of things, from desktop PCs to gameboys. Granted, most of that wasn't very relevant by the 90s, but z80 assembly was still a lot of fun anyway.

>> No.16575952

If it ain't reverse polish then it ain't shit.

>> No.16576013

>>16575544
>collude with TI to exploit a captive market and charge students $200 for a calculator with the graphics of an Apple IIe and the processor from a ColecoVision
>collude with Pearson to exploit a captive market and charge students $300 for edition 27 of a textbook with calculus theories from 1821 and freshly reshuffled exercise numbers to make edition 26 unusable
many such cases

>> No.16576025

>>16575445
casio cg-10 is elite it solves radicals automatically lol

>> No.16576045
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>>16575445
I currently have the Canon F-792SGA.
It does just about everything without graphing.

>> No.16576492
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For me, it’s the pinwheel calculator. Got it for 20 bucks 3 years ago.

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>>16576492
Here's before I did a shitty paint job on it. It works flawlessly though.

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>>16576492
>>16576501
Here it is with the covers removed.

>> No.16576507

>>16576492
>>16576501
>>16576505
porn is not tolerated here, but I'll allow it this one time

>> No.16576609

>>16576507
Are you an objectophile?

>> No.16576881

>>16575445
For me its casio.

>> No.16576948

the internet made all of the foregoing devices or gadgets obsolete

>> No.16578220

>>16576492
Nice...can she do RK4 on an ODE?

>> No.16578224

>>16575544
This is the calculator that my grandfather gifted me when I went to college. I am marvelled even to this date by all the features (complex arithmetic, binary/hexadecimal number handling, integration, etc.) that this small, cheap pocket calculator managed to pack.

>> No.16579556

>>16575544
I saw that calculator before, pretty good for its size.

>> No.16580708

i got the 86 games were better

>> No.16583453

>>16575912
Yes, this had soul.

I had the TI-89 but for some reason lost the calculator.
Didn't know where it went.

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16583988

I wish I had one. I should have bought one years ago when they were still relatively obscure. Now they go for thousands of dollars.

>> No.16583999

>>16583988
Just buy a pinwheel calculator>>16576492
They do the exact same operations and they are cheaper.
I will admit that the Curta is cooler though and I wish I had money for one as well.

>> No.16584009

I use a SwissMicros DM15. I've absolutely loved it ever since I got it

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>>16575445
For me it's this here compass

>> No.16584014

>>16584013
I have one of these but it's broken, for the life of me I cannot get it to reliably point north.

>> No.16584141

>>16584009
I use the original HPs they were based off of. We're the only ones with good taste ITT. Don't need graphing bloatware.

>> No.16584149

>>16575952
This, I’ve got an HP50G and HP15c.