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      04-15-2021, 08:31 PM   #2399
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You remember the new "personal" TI hand held calculator being advertised for $149.95...$982.00 in today's dollars.
Ok, nerd time ...
In my Engineering school, we would have a calculator speed competition between the TI brand and the HP/RPN brand where each person had to perform a fairly complex equation. Needless to say, HP with RPN came out winning every time.

This is my HP 41CV programmable calculator I bought in 1979. Yes, I still have it and use it. I don't remember the price.
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When I was in HS, we couldn't use those electrical calculators, especially on tests!
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Ok, nerd time ...
In my Engineering school, we would have a calculator speed competition between the TI brand and the HP/RPN brand where each person had to perform a fairly complex equation. Needless to say, HP with RPN came out winning every time.

This is my HP 41CV programmable calculator I bought in 1979. Yes, I still have it and use it. I don't remember the price.
My dad had the predecessor of this calculator when he was in grad school but his was made for statistics.

At university, I had a TI-30 then moved to a TI-55. Yes. Complete nerd.
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America's Cup 12 meter?
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When I was in HS, we couldn't use those electrical calculators, especially on tests!
LOL!

Our HS physics teacher called our calculators electronic slide rules!!
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LOL!

Our HS physics teacher called our calculators electronic slide rules!!
Can anyone here do long division w/ pencil & paper?
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America's Cup 12 meter?
Yes! 12 meters were used for the cup until 1987.
The pic is in Greenwich, CT a few years back. We were going out to dump some of my big bro's ashes in the Long Island Sound.

"Freedom (12 meter US-30) is a 12-metre class racing yacht and winner of the 1980 America's Cup, defeating the challenging yacht Australia. Freedom was designed with an alloy rather than a wood hull by Olin Stephens and Bill Langan, and constructed at Minneford Yacht Yard. She was skippered in the Cup by Dennis Conner."
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I went for a few FCC license exams a few years ago, and the test rules allowed for a basic (non-scientific) calculator or a slide rule. The three-person panel proctoring the test had a combined age older than the USA, and actually had to go verify the test rules because nobody showed up with a slide rule in years. Of course I passed, missing only one question between the two exams.....
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LOL!

Our HS physics teacher called our calculators electronic slide rules!!
Can anyone here do long division w/ pencil & paper?
LOL, rarely ever need to, but still can!
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Can anyone here do long division w/ pencil & paper?
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Can anyone here do long division w/ pencil & paper?
Yes.

I can also write 100 times on the blackboard, "I will not talk in class."
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Yes, BS Mathematics, University of Washington. I too can tell people that I have forgotten more math then they ever knew.
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[QUOTE=Littlebear;27480573]Can anyone here do long division w/ pencil & paper? [/QUOT

Yes I can...thank you very much. I can also do it in my head (within reason). Now GET THE HELL OFF MY LAWN WHIPPERSNAPPER!
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I can also write 100 times on the blackboard, "I will not talk in class."
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Reverse Polish Notation!
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Reverse Polish Notation!
oh s*** my HP calculators use them. I have a HP15C (made in USA) and a HP12C (this one was a replica / anniversary edition no way built like my USA 15C)

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