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From: rayde@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM (ray_depew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Purpose of 48SX "Solve Equation Library Card"?
Message-ID: <31210027@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM>
Date: 29 May 90 23:58:28 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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Michel,

What's your major?  If it's anything in engineering or physical sciences,
then you will find the Card extremely useful.  If it's chemistry or
electrical engineering, you may find it even better than that.

It contains THE answer to the temperature addition/subtraction problem, 
and some other additional units.  It contains dozens of the miserable
physical constants (Rydberg?  who's he?) that crop up on midterms and
finals.  The Periodic Table and the Molecular Weight calculator are so
great, I'd buy the card just for these 2 applications.

(Of course, I'm focusing too narrowly on science & engineering here.
The Card contains nearly every equation used in Halliday & Resnick, but
it also has a whole raft of financial utilities, and a Multiple Equation
Solver.)

Plus it has a cool game.

Ray Depew
HP InkJet Components Operation
BSChE, MSEE -- boy, I wish I'd had one of these things in school!   
Just another etc.
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