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Re: Can someone help me decide on which calculator to buy? (hopefully right section
« Reply #15 on: April 04, 2010, 12:12:43 am »
Yeah, unfortunately. But if you're getting a calculator purely for its built-in math functions, HP-50's are hard to beat (I don't know of any other calculator with Grobner bases and a Risch algorithm integrator).
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Re: Can someone help me decide on which calculator to buy? (hopefully right section
« Reply #16 on: April 04, 2010, 12:24:40 am »
Doesn't HP use RPN, though? I also heard a lot by TI and Casio users that HPs were much harder to use than the former, even a TI-89. But again, the TI-Nspire is pretty hard to use, too.
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Re: Can someone help me decide on which calculator to buy? (hopefully right section
« Reply #17 on: April 04, 2010, 12:48:25 am »
The HP-50 has an algebraic mode.
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Re: Can someone help me decide on which calculator to buy? (hopefully right section
« Reply #18 on: April 04, 2010, 12:50:30 am »
Aaah ok, thanks for the info. Now if only those calcs had a big community... they have a quite powerful processor IIRC (in the 200 MHz, right?).

(offtopic: someone should make a HP-48 emulator for the TI-Nspire `-`)
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Re: Can someone help me decide on which calculator to buy? (hopefully right section
« Reply #19 on: April 04, 2010, 12:57:05 am »
Quote from: jsj795 on April 03, 2010, 06:09:24 pm

I cannot really answer your question since I don't own the nspire... Although looking now at the TI's website it does look cool... btw, question to others, is ndless possible on nspire CAS? or is it strictly to nspire without CAS?
Oh, and is the TI-84+ possible on nspire CAS? or is it only for nspire handheld

From what I know, ndless is possible on CAS but I have heard nothing about the touchscreen.  I'm assuming no until a new version comes out because it runs 2.0.  TI-84 isn't possible on the CAS, im not sure why but the CAS doesn't have the interchangeable keypads
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Re: Can someone help me decide on which calculator to buy? (hopefully right section
« Reply #20 on: April 04, 2010, 01:06:45 am »
the issue is that the new Nspire and Nspire CAS models that are coming out soon cannot be downgraded to an OS older than 2.0. Ndless requires OS 1.1 at the moment. Only the older Nspires and Nspire CAS can be downgraded from 2.0 to an older OS.
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Re: Can someone help me decide on which calculator to buy? (hopefully right sec
« Reply #21 on: April 04, 2010, 10:55:19 am »
I would recommend you not to buy anything yet. Someone might be able to make some kind of third-party CAS for the normal Nspire, or even just install the CAS OS on it (yes, I know that this isn't very legal). And there still is the possibility of calc84maniac releasing his 89 emu.

But if you need the CAS really soon, then I would recommend buying an 89 Titanium, instead of having 2 Nspires.
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Re: Can someone help me decide on which calculator to buy? (hopefully right section
« Reply #22 on: April 04, 2010, 02:34:12 pm »
I think the 89 emu is in very early stages, though, and Calc84 has yet to figure out how to use linking routines for the TI-Nspire, meaning if you used the TI-89 emu on a Nspire, you would not be able to send any program to it yet if it came out soon.
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