Re: Mohr Circle
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Re: Mohr Circle
>I wasn't speaking of size. The HP48 user base is generally, from what I
have
>seen, both more professional and at a higher level in its education than
the TI
>user base. Quanitity is not what I look at; quality is what matters.
This is actually a valid point. TI's huge user base comes from students who
never use half the calculator's abilities. The HP48 is used more by
engineers in the work force, mainly because RPN is too complex for most
students to use. The engineers also got used to the HP48 before TI has its
graphing calculators. I expect the TIs to become more dominant as students
move into the workforce.
However, the TI comunity does have some wonderful programmers. The guys who
came up with ZShell and Fargo just amaze me.
>And I was not speaking of the early arrival of many programs for the HP.
The
>HP's programming environment is superior to the TI's, and it's user base is
in
>more of a position to take advantage of this superiority. There is nothing
for
>the TI even comparable to the work and effort that has gone into algebra
>libraries such as Erable and Alg48. This speaks for both the versatility
of
>the programming environment and the nature of the user base.
Nature of the user base perhaps, but the TIs aren't so inferior that you
couldn't do similar things. The only real limitation of the TIs is the size
of the RAM. The HP48 has memory expansion cards, though they are awfully
expensive.
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