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Where to get this calculator?

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  • #2
    TheBody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭TheBody


    eire-kp wrote: »
    Not exactly sure if this is the right section for this request. But does anyone know where in Dublin city I could buy this calculator?

    http://sharp-world.com/products/calculators/sc_calculator/el-w506/index.html

    Tried Eason's today any other suggestions?!

    EDIT: Mistook the image.

    Did ya try Reads on Nassau Street?


  • #3
    areyawell
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭areyawell


    Amazon be your best bet Id say, or if you know anywhere in Dublin that sells school books they might have it or a similar one


  • #4
    eire-kp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 380 ✭✭eire-kp


    I'll try Reads so, I'm sure I seen them in Easons in Galway a month ago. May have to try Amazon but I had a day of on Saturday so I was hoping to pick one up asap.


  • #5
    Yakuza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,130 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    I bought that exact one in Eason's a few months ago. It might have been replaced with a slightly newer model. Did you try the first floor on the O'Connell St branch?. Reads is another place to try.


  • #6
    eire-kp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 380 ✭✭eire-kp


    I did look there but none of the had the complex/polar form buttons and the write view display together.


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  • #7
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,228 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I have a Casio with essentially the same functions, and Eason's has it too: the FX-991ES. I'd take that over the Sharp, personally.

    In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.

    ― Wilhelm Reich



  • #8
    eire-kp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 380 ✭✭eire-kp


    The Casios are probably great but I've being using Sharp the last while...I'm not sure I could change!!


  • #9
    eire-kp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 380 ✭✭eire-kp


    bnt wrote: »
    I have a Casio with essentially the same functions, and Eason's has it too: the FX-991ES. I'd take that over the Sharp, personally.

    Its some tool allright! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QsdTEoBrIo Is that allowed in a college exam? Is assume defiantly not in the leaving cert!


  • #10
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,228 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    eire-kp wrote: »
    Its some tool allright! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QsdTEoBrIo Is that allowed in a college exam? Is assume defiantly not in the leaving cert!
    No-one complained at UCD. It has no symbolic maths, programmability or data storage, so the examiners didn't mind. The complex number functions were particularly useful in electrical calculations. :cool:

    In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.

    ― Wilhelm Reich



  • #11
    eire-kp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 380 ✭✭eire-kp


    bnt wrote: »
    The complex number functions were particularly useful in electrical calculations. :cool:

    The reason we were told to get a caculotor with that function.

    Found one in Argos..Will get it in the morning!

    http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/6705536/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7COffice%2C+PCs+and+phones%7C14418968/Trail/searchtext%3ECASIO.htm


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  • #12
    MathsManiac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,595 ✭✭✭MathsManiac


    eire-kp wrote: »
    Is assume defiantly not in the leaving cert!

    You are correct to defiantly assume that it is definitely not allowed in the Leaving Cert!

    http://www.examinations.ie/candidates/List_Permitted_Prohibited_Calculators_State_Examinations_May_2012.pdf


  • #13
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,228 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    You can probably find specific rules for your college online. Using UCD again, it's covered in the Exam Regulations, and all they say is "the use of programmable calculators is not permitted during examinations, unless their use is specified on the examination paper by the examiners". I actually had an exam in which they were permitted, and I could have used my programmable TI-89, but I only found out when I got the exam paper!

    In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.

    ― Wilhelm Reich



  • #14
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,228 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I went in to Eason's on O'Connell St today, upstairs in the "Back To College" section. They had both the Casio FX-991 ES Plus and the Sharp EL-W506 in stock: several of the Casio, only one of the Sharp.

    In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.

    ― Wilhelm Reich



  • #15
    eire-kp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 380 ✭✭eire-kp


    Thanks for that got the Casio in the end, Spent a while watching Youtube videos and playing around with it. It will be perfect!


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