The Orion scientific calculator costs $200 or so and everything speaks.

Mike Freeman

On Tue, 11 May 2004, Brent Harding wrote:

> I assume the pac mate's calculator is about the same, I know it does sine,
> cosine tangent, and quite a few things that are quite complicated. I suppose
> in school in the formulas that need such items, scientific calculators are
> usually used. One problem is that for a blind person, a talking scientific
> calculator costs over $600 itself, that TI one that only spoke when the E
> button was pressed and required reprogramming to do so every time the
> battery got drained enough. The answer was all it spoke. School had one
> then, as it was pretty much required for roots, high exponents, and the
> like.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 11:07 AM
> Subject: Algebra and Differential Equations
>
>
> > Jim,
> >
> > I use a BNS with built-in scientific calculator.  I don't need to do
> > heavy-duty calculations, so that works fine if I need to plug in a
> formula.
> >
> >
> > Steve Pollo
> > Lansing, MI
> >
>