Calculators, am I too picky?
 

I have the TI 30X-IIS, a nice dual power, 2 line calculator. It has one feature missing, the fraction bar key, that another TI has. Other than that, pretty much the perfect machine for me... except it does not use a comma in numbers to separate the thousands place: it displays ten-thousand as 10000 instead of my preference 10,000 :-?

I know, most people probably do not care, I must have some kind of dyslexia because when I see 4589339 I have no idea what that is, as compared to 4,589,339 which I instantly recognized as 4 million, 5 hundred thousand,etc.

I'm looking around for another calc, one that has a 2 line display, that works with fractions and decimal conversions, the basic stuff, AND displays numbers with the lil' comma. I would prefer a TI, for obvious if shallow reasons :shucks:

Any advice or comments about what you use is welcome!

Neal

yea, I hate calculators that dont put in the , between thousands,millions,ect.

Your computer! Biggest calculator you own! :D

-S

Been working for centuries:

http://gregplaysbass.com/images_index/abacus-1-AJHD.jpg

...and that's why I'm a language major.:yeah::haha:

I have the same problem though I'm usually thinking, which girl's phone number is that after a long friday night...:rotfl:

Yeah, phone numbers indeed! :D

I sent a note to a contact at TI, I'm interested in hearing what they think about this. I did some Google searches for calculators with comma; not much turned up. Amazing that this subject is not more widespread. I mean, unless most people are at ease with numbers like 41811219 :88)

I love this stuff!

http://www.instablogsimages.com/imag...ulator_183.jpg
Ye old calculator.:lol:

If you open the calculator in windows and select scientific and digital grouping it puts comma's in there. So it must be called 'digital grouping'