BAII plus pro is my personal favorite. Its better than all those other cheap calculators. Strong battery life and works better. Calculates payback period better
agreed. i can easily plug in data points and calc the stdev and correlation without having to manually do it like some monkey…
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students use TI. professionals use HP. i have never seen a TI in my 10yrs of professional life.
why would anybody use a “reverse polish” calculator?? LOL
^ Because it’s neat to use RPN. Only those who have tried it knows this.
Explanation "In Reverse Polish notation the operators follow their operands; for instance, to add three and four, one would write “3 4 +” rather than “3 + 4”. … Interpreters of Reverse Polish notation are often stack-based; that is, operands are pushed onto a stack, and when an operation is performed, its operands are popped from a stack and its result pushed back on. …Calculations occur as soon as an operator is specified. Thus, expressions are not entered wholesale from right to left but calculated one piece at a time, most efficiently from the center outwards. … The automatic stack permits the automatic storage of intermediate results for use later: this key feature is what permits RPN calculators to easily evaluate expressions of arbitrary complexity … Brackets and parentheses are unnecessary … The fact that RPN has no use for parentheses means it is faster and easier to calculate expressions, particularly the more complex ones, than with an infix calculator, owing to fewer keystrokes and greater visibility of intermediate results. … Users must know the size of the stack … it is usually easier (fewer keystrokes) in working a problem … " (Source: Wikipedia)
The HP is really awesome. The RPN is fantastic, saves a lot of time. HP is strongly built, you can throw it around and it will still works, battery lasts ages too, havent changed the battery since I bought it 4years ago… I killed a TI in the past, so I moved to HP and never had to buy another calculator again…
Really? You guys like the hp better than TI. Might need to test them both out on mock exams and see which one works better
TI II Plus Professional works fine for me. It is easy to operate and fast. I will buy an extra battery, just in case. Though I don’t think it is going to be exhausted just in 6 months.
I have both and find the TI to be more user friendly… I like the ability to scroll down visual menus and actually visually confirm what your solving… I also like the stat/data function on the TI, and the nCr and nPr functions that are not available on the HP. I will stick to the TI but will have the HP handy if ever needed for whatever reason.
And the HP has instructions for how to use the bond function written on the back… just in case you forget. Did anyone with the TIBA calculator use the screwdriver to replace the batteries during the exam? That image always makes me laugh.
I bought my TI BA calc 1 month back. It does not have any screws. Just a push back cover that can be easily taken off; like we have in the cell phones. It is very easy to change the batteries.
sfdave3 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > students use TI. > > professionals use HP. > > i have never seen a TI in my 10yrs of professional > life. that has more to do with supply relationships with HP. when you order many supplies from HP and have their catalog, getting a financial calculator from HP is easier than going with TI (which you order nothing from). a better analogy is that people who get their stuff for free get HP. Those who actually pay their own money get TI.
I have not one, but TWO BA II Plus Professional calcs. They are awesome! Once you get good with the Store and Recall buttons you can be insanely fast! The reverse polish crap can get real screwy…especially when you are trying to stack alot of calcs. Keep it simple stupid
I used both, in my practice I had been using the HP 12 C,however after I started using the TI… I find it more user friendly and more convenient. E.g: if you want to use the Interest Conversion Function, you have to memorise the steps for HP, but not for T1 which is straight forward ( May be I am wrong and there is a better way in HP!) Long Story Short: I prefer the T1.
HP is straight-up old school. My old boss had one forever and all the writing on the buttons was worn off but he still flew through calcs. He rarely needed to use Excel and always brought it to client meetings to pound out answers on the spot. He looked a lot cooler than someone trying to mess with a big laptop (or a slippery iPad, I’m sure). For me, TI all the way. The learning curve for RPN is too steep for me!
That’s true. I might not have chosen HP12C if I hadn’t already learned RPN on a HP15C in school, I had it because of the matrix math stuff, sold it to some geek just a few years ago (on an eBay-like site). It was still running after all these years, I think I changed the batteries only about once and certainly no more than twice. Is your boss dead/retired? “Had one forever” (past tense). In any case your story tells a bit of the reliability of the HP12C, little risk it’ll malfunction because of wear and tear. Here’s a link for you: http://www.hpmuseum.org/
lol…this is a funny convo I’m in IB buy-side and have never used a financial calc… straight excel (no mouse baby) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROlDmux7Tk4
Do not get an HP, people will look at you differently and judge you as if you are from another generation. BAII is the more respectable calculator.