Why must a calculator do everything for you? I remember a time when numerical integration, matrix multiplication, and derivatives were done by hand. Additionally, we weren't allowed calculators in tests. Pardon the rant, but it is comments like the statement above that make me appreciate having studied under people like David Huffman (of Huffman Coding) and instilled in me the ability and desire to derive things from first principles.
I'd suggest that people just like you were saying things just like this back in the HP 15C's heyday... except they were saying them about slide rules. Is there any more merit in your words than there was in theirs?
I'd suggest that people just like you were saying things just like this back in the HP 15C's heyday... except they were saying them about slide rules. Is there any more merit in your words than there was in theirs?