230 - 220 x 0.5

Demon said:
Just busted out the 1996 9850G.. (biggest waste of money ever.. too faffy for normal use, too clunky for anything else!)

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'32KB ought to be enough for anybody'
 
Demon said:
Just busted out the 1996 9850G.. (biggest waste of money ever.. too faffy for normal use, too clunky for anything else!)

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I've been eying up old school sci calculators on ebay..

I've been told that I don't need anymore...
"But how am I going to solve the questions in my maths book?"
"You don't have any maths books!"
"I would if I had a calculator to solve them with!"

But yeah.. I've been looking at smp yellow maths books on ebay too... lol..
 
slinxy said:
I've been eying up old school sci calculators on ebay..

I've been told that I don't need anymore...
"But how am I going to solve the questions in my maths book?"
"You don't have any maths books!"
"I would if I had a calculator to solve them with!"

But yeah.. I've been looking at smp yellow maths books on ebay too... lol..
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I literally just bought an old Casio FX-451 on eBay after this thread..

WxbIjmyL

(sellers image)

A bit worrying it is showing all '8's but the ad says its fully function and for £25 delivered, it'll be interesting to see! *That and the white marks on the spine, looks to be either painted on as it's not white underneath..

All the cool kids had these when I was at school, so a big dose of nostalgia as I always wanted one..

Being from a family with little money at that time, I had this cheap Sharp knock-off that was branded 'Shrap'.. and crucially it was lacking the pi button, so I had to memorise Pi to enough decimal places, just off the top of my head (genuinely) 3.141592654..

The Casio 9850G's are £12-£15 on fleabay! Unbelievable really, way better condition than my own (which to be fair had 4 years of uni!)
www.ebay.co.uk

Casio CFX-9850G Colour Power Graphic Calculator Works Perfect With Case | eBay UK

Casio CFX-9850G Colour Power Graphic Calculator Works Perfect With Case Tested and Working Marks on the screen as seen in photos
www.ebay.co.uk
 
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Feek said:
I don't care.

This'll be one of those BODMAS or PEBMUD or RAGMER things which 'everyone' claims was taught at school but it clearly wasn't. If it doesn't have brackets, I have literally no way to interpret what comes first.
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If you're not taught order of operations then even basic maths doesn't work.

And unless you went through school before the 16th Century nothing has changed.
 
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Demon said:
I literally just bought an old Casio FX-451 on eBay after this thread..

WxbIjmyL

(sellers image)

A bit worrying it is showing all '8's but the ad says its fully function and for £25 delivered, it'll be interesting to see! *That and the white marks on the spine, looks to be either painted on as it's not white underneath..

All the cool kids had these when I was at school, so a big dose of nostalgia as I always wanted one..

Being from a family with little money at that time, I had this cheap Sharp knock-off that was branded 'Shrap'.. and crucially it was lacking the pi button, so I had to memorise Pi to enough decimal places, just off the top of my head (genuinely) 3.141592654..

The Casio 9850G's are £12-£15 on fleabay! Unbelievable really, way better condition than my own (which to be fair had 4 years of uni!)
www.ebay.co.uk

Casio CFX-9850G Colour Power Graphic Calculator Works Perfect With Case | eBay UK

Casio CFX-9850G Colour Power Graphic Calculator Works Perfect With Case Tested and Working Marks on the screen as seen in photos
www.ebay.co.uk
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Oh... How I wish I could calculate pi... but.... How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics

Jokiing aside.. pre 2000 electronics is the best, I've been looking at getting a psion. I managed to pickup a sharp databank calculator new old stock from a car boot for a pound and spent an evening programing all my phone numbers in to it. Looking for a techinics portable CD player at the moment.. my shopping list is endless.
 
Feek said:
I don't care.

This'll be one of those BODMAS or PEBMUD or RAGMER things which 'everyone' claims was taught at school but it clearly wasn't. If it doesn't have brackets, I have literally no way to interpret what comes first.
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I was definitely taught it at school - maybe not until GCSEs though.
 
sidimmu said:
Has anyone actually had to use any of that crap since school?
Does anyone else care to be reminded about it 10, 20, 30+ years later?


Feed him to the pigs!
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I do use maths a fair bit (I'm an engineer (chartered)) but also just for generall business use I find it helps create far better analytical summaries being able to use a bit of basic mathematics.
 
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