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Originally Posted by Jim Richards

RPN or nothing! Luddites rule!

I do love my RPN. I still have the Christmas gift (HP 32Sii) from my college girlfriend in 1989, and it still works. I do use it a bit less since for at least 7 years or so I've had an RPN calc app on my various phones.

Originally Posted by BE911SC

The calculator is dead? Apparently so is the brain.

"The brain is the new appendix. You just don't need your brain anymore." --Dennis Miller

Yep. Many/most kids know crap about math these days.

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

"Better to remember a spare battery for your calculator than to remember the sine of 30." So said my calculus professor in 1975.

I do think grinding out the calculations can get in the way of understanding the concepts.

Meh, .5, and I didn't even have to look it up, except I do think more in terms of radians than degrees when you start throwing that stuff around. Way too much math over the years.