Re: Graphing +- Calculators

[John Denker <jsd@MONMOUTH.COM>]

At 11:50 AM 9/8/00 -0600, Larry Smith wrote:
> maybe a quick little poll on this list would be interesting.  Which brand
> do you use?
...
> P.S. I do tell my students that most serious calculations get done on
> computers these days rather than hand-held calculators.

I own several calculators, and never use them.  Simple stuff is just as
easy on a spreadsheet as on a calculator.  Non-simple stuff is vastly
easier on a spreadsheet.  It's been years since the last time I
 -- faced a problem that I couldn't do in my head, and simultaneously
 -- was out of reach of something that would run a spreadsheet program.