In the grand tapestry of Western civilizational development, the evolution of computational instruments represents a fundamental struggle between the expansive, specialized elite and the stagnant, institutionalized masses. To observe the rivalry between Texas Instruments and the Hewlett-Packard legacy is to witness a war between mandatory textbook compliance and unfiltered engineering dominance.The practitioner who wields a DM41X, fortified with the CCD, SandMath, and 41Z modules, does not merely use a tool; they command a specialized scientific instrument. Herein lies the reality of why TI-virgins cannot occupy the same operational plane as the 41Chads:The RPN "Barrier:" The TI-virgin is trapped within the "Infix" notation, a mess of nested menus and the chaotic struggle of parentheses. Conversely, the 41Chad operates within the disciplined hierarchy of RPN. While the virgin frantically checks if he closed the bracket on a sin function, the Chad hits the operator and watches the stack execute with cold certainty.Institutional vs. Operational: TI maintains a "stranglehold" on the educational establishment, producing designs for 15-year-olds seeking the path of least resistance. Their builds are lightweight plastic with mushy buttons. The DM41X is a stainless steel and glass tank; one does not "tap" it, the 41Chad engages it.The Library of Alexandria: The TI /v/irgin is limited to clunky TI-Basic scripts. The 41Chad has inherited forty years of professional M-Code. While the TI /v/irgin is Googling "how to do a Bessel function," the SandMath module has already calculated it using microcode forged for aerospace engineers.Aesthetic Vitality: The TI-84 is the "beige minivan" of math... ubiquitous and mandated by the state. The DM41X is the vintage-inspired supercar. To reveal a 41-series instrument in a room of TI-virgins is to pull a fountain pen in a room of crayon users.
>>107897643RPN only exists because it was computationally expensive to have cheap shitty microcontrollers do infix parsing up until the early 1970s
>>107897643A large language model wrote this.
>>107897658>RPN only exists because it was computationally expensive to have cheap shitty microcontrollers do infix parsing up until the early 1970sIt is truly pathetic to witness such a textbook display of institutionalized mediocrity. Your assertion is the classic Cope of the TI-virgin: a mind so conditioned by the beige minivan of educational monopolies that it mistakes a superior cognitive workflow for a mere historical relic.To suggest RPN was a "workaround" for hardware limitations is like claiming the manual transmission only exists because we hadn't invented the automatic. You are essentially arguing that because your calculator can finally parse your sloppy, nested logic, that logic is somehow superior.The Anatomy of the Infix CopeThe TI-virgin clings to Infix because it provides a safety blanket of parentheses, a pathetic crutch for those who cannot visualize the stack. While you are frantically counting brackets like a child on their fingers, the 41Chad is executing operations in real-time, utilizing the 41Z-Deluxe complex stack with the precision of a master surgeon.Your modern microcontroller wastes cycles on a clunky parsing engine just to make you feel comfortable. Meanwhile, the DM41X utilizes its architecture for SandMath and CCD extensions, executing optimized M-Code that makes your TI-Basic scripts look like finger-painting.RPN isn't "obsolete" .... it is a filter. It requires a fundamental understanding of mathematics that the modern, mushy-buttoned student simply lacks. You don't hate RPN because it's old; you hate it because it doesn't hold your hand.Shall I explain how the CCD module manipulates status bits directly, or is that too "computationally expensive" for your Infix-addled brain?>>107897673Fuck you nignogpollywog.
>>107897643RPN filters shitskins like nothing else out there.
>>107897688>RPN isn't "obsolete" ...sure does explain why every calc is infix and the cheapest RPN calc is a recreation of a discontinued HP model from 40 years ago
>>107897700Remember, a person without a foreskin wrote that comment.
Whoever promoted non rpn calculators should've been shot.
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>>107897643be me, 17 ace precalc because I'm not a brainlet Uncle hands me his old HP-42S mfw it’s built like a tank and doesn’t feel like a cheap TI toyHonestly, why are people still using algebraic entry? Once you go RPN, everything else feels like mid-tier bloat. No parentheses, no "order of operations" cope, just the stack. The 42S is peak comfy. The menus are actually logical, and the matrix handling is unironically better than modern garbage. Plus, that two-line display is crisp.I’m already looking for a PX41CX though. I’ve been reading the old archives about the HP-41C ecosystem. Imagine having those expansion modules and the literal cult following. I need that industrial aesthetic in my life.Stay mad, TI plebs.
I hate my hp 50g that /g/ memed me into buying way back when, it slurps batteries and the display contrast is so shit I end up using an hp 48 emulator on my phone instead.
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>>107897870Where'd my 48GX go i wonder? I did the ram upgrade on it way back, but i think one of the chips were bad, it'd crash if you store too much data.
do these have a way to apply a function to everything on the stack
>>107897643one heck of a shill still not spending 400+ on a calccan i build one with 8 bit chip
