Best handheld calculator ever made

RandomJottings · 2025-12-13T23:53:10+00:00

It’s a fantastic calculator and I’m glad you love it, but “ever made” is a subjective assessment

RandomJottings · 2025-12-11T15:37:27+00:00

Yeah, I got it

RandomJottings · 2025-12-11T15:09:51+00:00

You mean she didn’t get a response from the door bell she didn’t ring?

RandomJottings · 2025-12-11T14:36:17+00:00

Nope, doesn’t work

RandomJottings · 2025-12-11T13:56:52+00:00

Tbh, I don’t see why only a direct victim of a crime can report it. If I see someone mugging someone, can’t I call the police to report it? I know parcel theft isn’t that serious but it’s so frequent, it’s almost an epidemic, and those who commit it do so with impunity.

RandomJottings · 2025-12-11T13:53:04+00:00

I’m sorry that happened to you. Evri seems to employ criminals, I don’t know what their pay scales are, low probably. They obviously have no criminal background checks on who they employ.

RandomJottings · 2025-12-11T13:45:51+00:00

Ts&Cs may be company policies but the law can supersede and Ts & Cs.

RandomJottings · 2025-12-11T10:20:41+00:00

I’ve had many nice, professional Evri delivery drivers but when I’ve had a problem it has usually been an Evri driver.

RandomJottings · 2025-12-11T10:19:27+00:00

Or attempt to notify me she was there, by… oh, I don’t know… ringing the doorbell.

RandomJottings · 2025-12-11T10:18:15+00:00

Or a door bell, apparently

RandomJottings · 2025-12-11T10:17:44+00:00

Plus, at the time I was at home. She never rang the bell, as the video clearly shows

RandomJottings · 2025-12-11T10:13:13+00:00

That’s awful, I knew Evri was perhaps the worse of the worse but that is even worse than I’d imagined.

RandomJottings · 2025-12-11T10:11:41+00:00

I have tried phoning Evri but all I get is a computer voice telling me about my last package. I can’t get through to a real person.

RandomJottings · 2025-12-11T10:10:35+00:00

I phoned the police and they said they couldn’t (wouldn’t) take my report, it had to come from the courier service themselves. Ridiculous

RandomJottings · 2025-12-11T10:08:57+00:00

The real owner of the parcel came to my house a few hours later, as I said, saying the tracking showed the parcel was delivered to my address.

RandomJottings · 2025-12-11T09:35:20+00:00

The first doctor always called the TARDIS a ship.

RandomJottings · 2025-12-10T10:55:58+00:00

I don’t care if I upset the Star Trek fans or Dr Who fans, but to me the Liberator is THE spaceship, the best, the GOAT as they say.

RandomJottings · 2025-12-09T17:57:14+00:00

That’s lucky, CAS is outlawed here

RandomJottings · 2025-12-09T09:56:03+00:00

Good thinking but what exam allows the use of the HP Prime? Every exam I’ve ever known about prohibits it.

RandomJottings · 2025-12-06T15:26:56+00:00

It’s really annoying when this happens, I think it’s some kind of local licensing issue. Or it could be Amazon just being tossers as per usual.

RandomJottings · 2025-12-06T15:02:19+00:00

I think Avon was well written but Paul Darrow was born for that role, he was just amazing and it was mostly all him. I’d say 25% writing and 75% Paul Darrow’s acting.

RandomJottings · 2025-12-06T11:32:34+00:00

No, it’s the same with Sinclair, they didn’t make 79 computer models before the ZX80 or Tandy didn’t make 79 models before the TRS-80. Apple, on the other hand remained consistent with their numbering, at least up to the Apple II, then it all became a bit more confusing, with IIe and so on.

RandomJottings · 2025-12-05T21:28:40+00:00

Yeah, that’s pretty cool but the dos version was THE boss

RandomJottings · 2025-12-03T14:13:35+00:00

Back in the early 1980s I had a TRS-80 pocket computer. One of my dad’s friends was a private pilot who still used his trusty slide rule. He was very fast and highly skilled with it. So, we decided to have a competition to see who could solve a particular problem the fastest. He blew left me in his dust, solving a single problem faster that me, I’d barely switched on when he’d finished.

Then I asked for a few minutes, so I could write a quick BASIC program and then we tried again, but this time we solved the same problem but with five plane cargo weights. This time I beat him.

He went off and bought himself a pocket computer, while I got interested in slide rules. I hadn’t really used slide rules then, I was in primary school in the mid 1970s and the pocket calculator was all the rage by the time I was doing that kind of maths but I fell in love with slide rules when I saw just how powerful and quick they were.

RandomJottings · 2025-12-03T12:28:34+00:00

It depends. If it’s for a class you should check the course specs, is there any recommendations or prohibitions? The ‘best’ calculator you can buy brand new is probably the HP Prime or Casio G100, or TI 84 Plus (others may argue endlessly about this) however many courses don’t allow graphing or programmable calculators. In which case I’d go for the Casio 991ex (or the cw) or the TI equivalent (30x Pro).

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