21 Mar
2020
21 Mar
'20
1:43 a.m.
On 3/20/20 1:31 PM, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via COFF wrote:
That sounds like a good summary. I started out on TI
programmable
calculators (my first was a TI-57 that I still have, and that still
works), but moved on to RPN with an HP41CV. Today, I find entering
calculations into an RPN calculator simpler, because I naturally
think in terms of the stack. With a traditional calculator, I have
to look at the (possibly just mentally imaged) formula that I need to
evaluate, and type it in character by character, whereas the RPN
calculator lets me think about the calculation to be performed, and
just enter that.
Thank you for the comments gentlemen.
What I think I'm hearing you say is that with RPN you were shouldering
part of the computational load based on how you were entering things so
that they aligned as necessary with the stack. Conversely, you were
simply "plug and chug" (as I've heard elsewhere). Meaning you entered
the equation / formula and were largely hands off from the calculation.
Is that accurate?
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Grant. . . .
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