The Ultimate Compromise
It trumps everything on the market in the value-for-money stakes, offering a viable alternative to expensive, graphical-plot calculators, at an unbelievably low price.
What Casio did was incredible: they addressed the needs of those wanting a much more expensive, high-end, graphical-plot calculator, like the fx-cg50, but couldn't afford one. What you get here is all the features you'd look for in a more expensive calculator allowed for GCE use, but in a much slimmer body, less than half the price, and with a few extra facilities high-end models don't offer. As an example, it can solve polynomial inequalities, giving you the answer as it should be written down (even the fx-cg50 can't do this).
Apart form it's ability to solve single-variable equations, as presented with no rearrangement, it also has matrix, vector, statistical distribution facilities, dual tables, spreadsheets, and an equation-solving mode for simultaneous equations with up to 4 unknowns, and polynomial equations up to powers of 4. You also get a ratio solver; HCF, LCM and prime factorisation. It's dual powered, and even outputs data for graphical plotting via an app on your smartphone. Good quality? Only time will tell, but Casio have over 45 years of experience, and offer a 3-year warranty, so it should prove reliable, even if the keyboard does feels a bit trashy.
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