Re: Why do so many people love Teas Instruments?


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Now from the teacher
standpoint, why would you want to teach students a notation that is
different from the notation they have in their text book ?

That's subjective. To me, RPN is like the way I learned math. You
right down the numbers, one over the other, and then you draw the
operator.

Teachers
have enough problems with teaching students to understand the material
that is in the standard algebraic notation. Making that even more
difficult and confusing students with RPN notation / logic would make
their job even more difficult.

Those students should take up fine arts or something. I learned RPN in
20 minutes. Two years before my dad retired, I gave him my HP32-C. He
learned RPN in 20 minutes and exlaimed that he couldn't believe he
fumbled with algebraic for 11 years!

We both saved more than 20 minutes in keystrokes....LOL.

Scott Chapin

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