Casio fx-82 Solar

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Casio fx-260 Solar calculator

Casio fx-82 Solar (also fx-260 Solar) is a serie of solar-powered Casio's scientific calculators with a single-row 10+2 digits display (10-digit mantissa and 2-digit exponent in a scientific notation mode), with support of various modes and 144 functions in a total.

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Origin

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Casio fx-280 calculator

Casio fx-82 Solar is a modern generation of cheapest solar-powered scientific calculators derived from fx-39's successors:

Models

Special school editions produced with a disabled and blanked fraction input/output button (ab/c) for GED exam:

Educational use

Calculators of this serie approved for use at exams in many countries (including Australia, [1] Canada, Ireland, [2] New Zealand, [3] Singapore, Taiwan, UK, [4] USA, [5] [6] [7] etc.), and in cases were the use of programmable and graphing calculators is prohibited. Some testing centers provides verified calculators from own storage if the use of personal calculators is not permitted by exam policy. [8] For some exams in UK and Ireland all models designated as fx-83/85 serie are permitted, while the use of any models designated as fx-82 serie prohibited.

In some cases only basic arithmetic calculators permitted (such as Casio HS-4G) or use of any calculators totally prohibited (in Japan during Undergraduate exams, [9] in Ukraine during External independent evaluation [b] ).

Emulator

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Searchtool.svg Casio fx-82 Solar II Emulator

Casio Education Taiwan website provides official Casio fx-82 Solar II emulator software for educational purposes.

Alternatives

Approved alternatives are Texas Instruments TI-30 ECO RS/TI-30Xa, Hewlett-Packard HP-6s/HP-6s Solar, Sharp EL-501/EL-510, Canon F-502/502G/604/605G (battery-powered), Citizen SR-135N/SR-260N.

Receptions

Australian electrical engineer and vlogger David L. Jones in his the EEVblog #1093 episode reviewed Casio fx-260 Solar vs fx-260 Solar II, praising latest model for the improved solar panel allowed to use it in an environment with 20 Lux illumination, overall improved performance and more precise result in performing the Mike Sebastian's Calculator Forensics test:

sin-1 ( cos-1 ( tan-1 ( tan ( cos ( sin ( 9 ) ) ) ) ) ) =

Notes

  1. ↑ Ultra-slim models introduced innovative solar panel required only 50 Lux of illuminance to power the device, instead of 300 Lux required for earlier slim fx-900/950 models with a much larger solar panel.
  2. ↑ Rodon MK01  [ uk ], produced in mid 1990s, was the only solar-powered scientific calculator marketed as Made in Ukraine.

References

  1. ↑ UOW Approved Calculators. cmsprd.uow.edu.au.
  2. ↑ Academic Registry - Trinity College Dublin . www.tcd.ie.
  3. ↑ List of approved calculators - NZQA . nzqa.govt.nz.
  4. ↑ Allowed Calculators Lists. nottingham.ac.uk.
  5. ↑ TCAP Calculator Guidance for Grades 3-EOC. tn.gov.
  6. ↑ EGN 3321 – ENGINEERING ANLYSIS-DYNAMICS. curriculumalignment.ucf.edu.
  7. ↑ FSA Calculator and Reference Sheet Policies. fldoe.org.
  8. ↑ GED TEST - Washington High School Equivalency Diploma. gedhighschool.com.
  9. ↑ Examination Details. jpue.jp.

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