The 1 I had the battery never worked anyway, had to
always have it plugged in. The battery would last
about 5 minutes, lol. And it was $695. You can bring
in your scientific calculator, but you can't have any
programs on it. Mine was programmable. They didn't
want you to just hit a button and out pops the answer,
you had to remember the equations in your head.
--- Brent Harding <[log in to unmask]> 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
> >





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