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To: DoodleBob
The main calculator on my cell phone is an HP-48 simulator.

1 <enter> 1 + is 2.

2 posted on 10/24/2019 7:14:00 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Who's the leader of the club that feeds on dead babies? M-O-L... O-C-H... M-O-U-S-E.)
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To: KarlInOhio
Regular: 4.3 [x] 2.7 [+] 5.1 [=]
RPN: 4.3 [enter] 2.7 [x] 5.1 [+]

Ahhhh...once you get the hang of it, it's hard to go back.

My personal favorite was compounded annual growth rates. To find the CAGR of the DJIA rising from 5000 to 7000 over 3 years (11.87%), I'd go...

7000 [enter] 5000 [/] 3 [1/x] [yx] 1 [-]

18 posted on 10/24/2019 7:32:46 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^s)
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To: KarlInOhio
Still have and occasionally use my HP-41CX.
25 posted on 10/24/2019 7:40:06 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: KarlInOhio

Me too. I’ve been using HP calculators since the HP-25.


57 posted on 10/24/2019 8:20:10 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: KarlInOhio

A fellow HP48 user! I use m48 on my iPhone several times per week. Still have my 48GX in it’s soft case sitting in my drawer too. Been going strong for close to two decades now.


70 posted on 10/24/2019 9:13:13 PM PDT by Crolis ("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." -GKC)
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