Sharp EL-506WBBK Scientific Calculator

List Price: $14.99 Discount Price: $13.35

Features:

• Advanced Direct Algebraic Logic Series scientific calculator
• Ideal for high school students, college students, and professionals
• 440 functions including differential and integral calculus
• Large 12-digit, 2-line display, multi-line playback
• Convenient solar and battery power supplies

Customer Reviews:

Buy this Calculator! [Posted on 2007-10-18]
There is no need for me to write too much because I bought this calculator because of reviews I read on Amazon (I'm assuming they are still here). I just want to say that I am very happy with my purchase. So much nicer than carrying around a giant graphing calculator to do simple multiplication and division in an intro chemistry class. This Calc is way more than I need, but at $15... whatever :-)

Calculator [Posted on 2007-10-31]
It worked great while I had it, my daughter destroyed it within a week of having the calculator.

Add good functionality, delete some of handy ones [Posted on 2008-02-20]
This is a marvelous instrument. However, having gotten used to the model one step down (the EL -531W), I sure do miss the direct square root and direct Pi button. Now I have to use the 2nd function key to access these continuously use functions. Surely they could have sacrificed direct access to DRG or hyp instead.

Excellent calculator, especially for the price [Posted on 2008-05-28]
This is an excellent calculator, particularly for engineering functions that require polar-rectangular conversions, where it solidly trounces even the TI-89 Titanium for convenience. Its two-line display is not as nice as the TI's larger screen, of course, but works really well, allowing you to enter complex calculations and edit them as needed, even remembering your previous calculations.

The calculator has solar cell, so power is not an issue. With its plastic cover, it has been very durable over the last year and a half of being tossed into a backpack and used in all sorts of locations and situations. And at around $15 it's truly a bargain. It was recommended to the class by an engineering professor and I've used it college classes ever since; I bought another for my teen-ager to use in high-school math classes.

The only thing close to a downside is that the "manual" consists of a fold-out poster of small-print explanations for various functions -- not comprehensive and occasionally incomprehensible. However, most of the calculator's functions are quite straight-forward, so this is a fairly trivial issue.

I highly recommend this little gem of a calculator. What it does, it does well, and gives minimal fuss during the process.

nice [Posted on 2008-07-02]
this scientific calculator is top of the line. it has solar and battery power (very convenient feature). this things does everything you should expect from a scientific calculator and is at good value price. if you think you need more, get a graphing calculator.

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