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The 48G was a really good calculator, but only after loading additional software. The HP50g that came much later is better in every respect, except possibly for the smaller "ENTER" key (and people used to 48G will have to change some habits and possibly redefine some keys…). Incidentally, many young people (yes, I know how that sounds) do not know how useful a good engineering calculator can be and do not want to lea…
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yes a lot of people love them, but nobody's actually coming up with anything I can't do in python...
When all you have is a hammer arguments are so much fun
What impresses me in this discussion is how coy everybody has been about the actual benefits of these devices.
The 48G was a really good calculator, but only after loading additional software. The HP50g that came much later is better in every respect, except possibly for the smaller "ENTER" key (and people used to 48G will have to change some habits and possibly redefine some keys…). Incidentally, many young people (yes, I know how that sounds) do not know how useful a good engineering calculator can be and do not want to lea…
Solid list of basic gym equipment as well. I'd add a good dumbbell set to your list unless you lumped those under "weights". A few different types of bars, a dip belt for adding weight to dips and pullups, and a low / mid / high cable set with various handles are also nice to have. Bonus points for a reverse hyper.
The 48G was a really good calculator, but only after loading additional software. The HP50g that came much later is better in every respect, except possibly for the smaller "ENTER" key (and people used to 48G will have to change some habits and possibly redefine some keys…). Incidentally, many young people (yes, I know how that sounds) do not know how useful a good engineering calculator can be and do not want to lea…
There were form factor and interface changes, the 50 is an ARM running a simulator vs the original Saturn architecture, there's the SD card.
What are the key software changes?
Better CAS?
I admittedly don't use it in any great depth (I did in the past), but the iHP48 is a very nice HP-48 for iOS. And it solves my primary complaint with the originals, a backlight.
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> It's kind of like with gyms: what you get is what the market wants, and since the market doesn't know much, you get gyms full of useless exercise machines, because that's what people think a good gym should have. I'm curious: what should a good gym have?
Squat rack, barbell+weights and bench as a minimum, bonus points for a pull-up bar and bars for triceps dips. Most machines in gyms are either mostly useless, or actually detrimental to your health and fitness.
Or you get to a high enough level (for you genetics), where targeting a specific area is more efficient with some kind of a machine.
Or you've been training for many years and are now getting older- lots of folks can't really bench after about 40, and same goes for the dips.
Doing compound lifts is a great way to build both strength and muscle mass, but it is a bit myopic to call machines useless. Nuance is important.
Must admit that I'm not a competitor in lifting, and it is only a secondary hobby, but 1.83x body weight bench isn't completely laughable either
The 48G was a really good calculator, but only after loading additional software. The HP50g that came much later is better in every respect, except possibly for the smaller "ENTER" key (and people used to 48G will have to change some habits and possibly redefine some keys…). Incidentally, many young people (yes, I know how that sounds) do not know how useful a good engineering calculator can be and do not want to lea…
TBH TI-89 titanium is a better engineering calculator since the UI is way better. I have both a HP50G and a TI-89 titanium and I've done way more useful engineering work on the TI-89 titanium just because it's so much easier and accessible. Also of course, BASIC is a lot easier than reverse polish lisp for making some quick scripts. Also I will add, there are known symbolic math issues on the HP50G due to the CAS sys…
TI-89 preferred by far. hp50g UX is bad, particularly the latency makes me sick.
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When all you have is a hammer arguments are so much fun
every now and again, I download the user manual for a graphing calculator and every time I've been underwhelmed by what they have to offer. What impresses me in this discussion is how coy everybody has been about the actual benefits of these devices.
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every now and again, I download the user manual for a graphing calculator and every time I've been underwhelmed by what they have to offer. What impresses me in this discussion is how coy everybody has been about the actual benefits of these devices.
What impresses me is how you dismiss the usefulness to other people because you can't imagine it possibly being useful to someone because it's not useful to you