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Ask Slashdot: Cheap Second Calculators For Tests?
Rich0 writes "I own an HP 48 calculator that I'm quite content with, but soon I'll need to take a certification exam where this calculator will not be welcome. I'm sure this is a common problem for those who own higher-end calculators. Sure, I could just buy a random $15 calculator with a few trig functions, but I was wondering who makes the best moderately-priced calculators for somebody who already has and appreciates a programmable calculator and just needs something simple. Bonus points if the calculator can handle polar vector arithmetic and unit conversions, but it has to be simple enough that virtually any exam would accept its use."
Hi,
I'm too lazy/incompetent/stupid/other to come up with minimal competence with a search engine or a shopping site or product reviews or something like Consumer Reports. This is really my problem, for me to sort out on my own, but that's too scary since I am not enough of a person to confront even the shallowest of my own shortcomings. That is why I cannot produce an answer to such a trivial inquiry as "which 10-20 dollar calculator best meets my needs?". Even though this is my very own problem and no one else's, I wish to offload this problem onto the Slashdot community. By solving it for me, you will once agan enable me to avoid personal growth and the acquisition of basic problem-solving skills as so many before you have obviously done. You have my sincerest thanks for making my character flaws and personal failures that much more comfortable, because comfort is always the highest virtue and certainly easier, and thus more valuable to me, than growing or expanding my capabilities.
My sincerest thanks,
Rich0's Conscience and Heart of Hearts
Truth is often uncomfortable. So what? Think that makes it less true? Think that means it should never be said? Censorship you agree with is acceptable while censorship of what you like to say is tyranny, you hypocrites? Are you so shallow and small-minded as to think that whether you like the sound of a thing is the entire measure of its merit?
Where's the men and women of courage who would mod parent up? Did they tire of the groupthink and leave Slashdot for more fertile ground? Because the parent post is the TRUTH and I for one value that over any phony appearance of inoffensiveness. Try that sometime, if you are not faint of heart. It will enrich your life beyond expectation.