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Casio fx-FD10 Professional Scientific

03/01/2015 11:06 PM

Would someone mind telling me why the Japanese have all the fun?

Did you know about this new Casio offering? It's for Japanese and European engineers, only! See here:

Why do the Japanese take portable scientific calculating more seriously than we Americans? Why?

Look at them; they're happy campers.

"Those silly Americans; they believe that Students are the most important customer base; we Japanese hold the Professional with more respect; Banzai!"
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03/01/2015 11:35 PM

Those blue-belt engineers need to go up against a real abacus or slide-rule expert.

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03/02/2015 12:11 AM

It's a ruggedized special purpose handheld for the Chinese Civil Engineering market. They do have a lot of land to survey, and I guess they don't think Google Maps is accurate enough??

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03/02/2015 12:23 AM

We have an app for that....

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/calc-smart-scientific-calculator/id576675190?mt=8

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Re: Casio fx-FD10 Professional Scientific

03/02/2015 7:29 AM

I think the PC has relegated the high power scientific calculator mute.

I use an HP 11C for basic calculations, but Excel for anything more serious than that and our CAD programs do a lot of the grunt work in the background, so it isn't even necessary to write equations. Then there are tools like MathCad that are much more powerful than any calculator. I think apps are appearing for tablets, now, too.

My HP 48C sits dead to the world.

It's just the way we work now.
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Re: Casio fx-FD10 Professional Scientific

03/02/2015 9:04 AM

After 25 + years I had to put down my calculator and I purchased a cheaper TI 84 titanium? Worse mistake I did, can bearly read it even with my glasses.

Then I bought a app for my iPad and love it. SymCalc HD.

I'm sure there's an app simular to what you posted.

Calculators are so 1990's.

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Re: Casio fx-FD10 Professional Scientific

03/02/2015 10:51 AM

Although I've owned and used handheld calculators (from T.I. SR-10 and SR-51 thru HP-28C and HP-35S) for years, I still own and always keep handy my 3-inch diameter, circular, SLIDERULE as "standby & backup" for those times when the batteries die, because there ARE times when simple 'mechanical' *trumps* complex 'electrical' (wink,wink).

ie: DOOMSDAY prepping for Engineers 101!

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03/02/2015 10:55 AM

Reminds me of an adage between an old engineer and a young engineer.

And old engineer does his work on a calculator then checks it by hand

while

A young engineer does his work by hand and checks it on a calculator.

The problem I see today is young engineers have trouble with the fundamentals that they can't do it by hand.

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03/03/2015 6:46 AM

Yes, very true. So change has to happen one young engineer at a time.

My contribution to this cause is to delegate all calculations to either a junior engineer or a machine with a junior engineer grafted to it.

Tell it (either of them) what to calculate and find something else to do with my time...

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03/03/2015 4:15 AM

Is it possible that they simply don't sell in some areas, even when there are quite large populations there?

Perhaps they have had bad experiences in the USA........? Once bitten, twice shy?

Just a thought.......(I have personally no idea why!)

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03/03/2015 7:54 AM

Oh heck, I still use my ancient HP-41CV programmable calculators every day. One is 35 years old, whilst the newer one is 32 years old. And I still have a functional HP thermal printer too!

If they die, I will just get them repaired. IMO, they are still the best around.

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03/03/2015 8:36 AM

ahhh, that's lovely, what are their names?

Seriously, their was a time, where my calculator were a part of me, it's like if I left the house without my calculator, its like leaving the house with no pants.

One time, for what ever reason, when I left the house, I grabbed my calculator when I got to work, I took out my calculator only to find out it was the TV remote. I felt naked,.... My day was shot.

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03/03/2015 11:11 AM

HP 48G here. Does everything I was ever able to enter into it correctly. Plus the minehunt game is good for boring lectures or meetings.

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