SecretSpectre
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Great. The new calculator everyone's talking about. I just got the thing today and it is a major disappointment.
Probability calculations are virtually unusable. In all those permutations and combinatorics questions you need to input massive chains of p's and c's it is very bad. It takes FIVE button presses to enter in a factorial and more to get to pick and choose functions.
All the settings are hidden in the settings button, and the unnecessarily large display words make it very inefficient to scroll through the options. In the fx-100 AU PLUS the options are all abbreviated, making it much easier to use.
The percent button, radians to degrees button, factorise button and all those little things that we take for granted as being easy to use are ALL hidden inside the annoying catalogue. Have the manufacturers actually ever sat an exam before?
In all practical uses the fx-100 AU PLUS II is far better in terms of actually being able to find what you need quickly, and actually has MORE functionality because of the M+ and M- button which the fx-8200 AU does not have for some reason.
The only thing that it has that is different is the Sigma and Pi operators, the log base anything button (which is basically useless anyway), a slightly better statistics mode, and being able to define your own functions.
Oh and also the case. Casio seems to have forgotten how to make a case. It doesn't slide off like the other older ones, it CLIPS on and has an annoying handle thing sticking out of the top ruining the whole thing's ergonomics.
tl;dr, get the fx-100 AU PLUS II instead
EDIT: or you can use it as a backup to check your answers
Probability calculations are virtually unusable. In all those permutations and combinatorics questions you need to input massive chains of p's and c's it is very bad. It takes FIVE button presses to enter in a factorial and more to get to pick and choose functions.
All the settings are hidden in the settings button, and the unnecessarily large display words make it very inefficient to scroll through the options. In the fx-100 AU PLUS the options are all abbreviated, making it much easier to use.
The percent button, radians to degrees button, factorise button and all those little things that we take for granted as being easy to use are ALL hidden inside the annoying catalogue. Have the manufacturers actually ever sat an exam before?
In all practical uses the fx-100 AU PLUS II is far better in terms of actually being able to find what you need quickly, and actually has MORE functionality because of the M+ and M- button which the fx-8200 AU does not have for some reason.
The only thing that it has that is different is the Sigma and Pi operators, the log base anything button (which is basically useless anyway), a slightly better statistics mode, and being able to define your own functions.
Oh and also the case. Casio seems to have forgotten how to make a case. It doesn't slide off like the other older ones, it CLIPS on and has an annoying handle thing sticking out of the top ruining the whole thing's ergonomics.
tl;dr, get the fx-100 AU PLUS II instead
EDIT: or you can use it as a backup to check your answers
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