Casio fx-9860GII Graphing Calculator, Black

I bought this as a gift for my daughter and she loves it, she says she didn't understand how she went through high school without it. She's studying computer science and she says this is the best tool she has had to solve her math problems. Great power efficiency, the batteries last a long time in a daily basis use. Overall it is a great instrument, an useful tool for engineering students. At first hand it seems quite complicated to handle, but first impression doesn't last much. It has nice graphics and neat programs, with a large variety of programs and methods, and you can even program them yourself with basic programming skills. Pros: It is somewhat complete, has nice graphics tools and capabilities, the battery last long, it is programmable and has great alternatives for math writings forms. It has all basics and a large variety of methods, and you can find on internet a lot of programs for physics, economics, electrical solving, probabilistic and others Cons: It doesn't have much memory so you can't have many methods programs at once at the same time, meaning if you want to have the electrical circuits solver program and a Lagrange or New-Raph solver, or Gauss or Thevening among others, you have to choose one at the time because it won't be able to storage them all. And there are a few methods missing like Laplace transform, Inverse Laplace, Integral Asymptotics, Chrombach alpha and other advance methods in math, calculus and probabilistic. But the price is excellent

Great Product! Very easy to use. Awesome Functionality. This is one of the best education investments that i have ever made. Very happy with the purchase. The Calculator is simply great. I understand that in North America teachers and books only uses TI Calculators because is the tool that they have been using for years. Otherwise here in South America most of the High Schools/Universities uses Casio. I use to work with a Casio Graphing FX-7400 for 7 years and was really happy with it. Like my old Casio this new also do the graphing but it does twice as fast!. The FX-9860 Gii is a beast!!. Super fast calculations. The fact that comes with screen light are really nice!. Love the fact that come with 4 size AAA batteries so there is no need to recharge every week like TI or HP color screen calculators. I highly recommend it. Great Price Great Value. Thank you to Casio for the great work building this beast!.

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I could not decide between this calculator and the TI-84 Plus CE, so I bought both. I found the fx-9860GII to be a more competent calculator for undergraduate mathematics for the following reasons; 1. It gives exact answers for trig and square root problems (the TI only gives decimals). This is my #1 biggest problem with the TI84 Plus CE. 2. You do not need to open a seperate app to graph inequalities. The TI requires you to change to a different app, which is very clunky. 3. Handles fractions *way* better --> simplification, dedicated fraction key, fraction/decimal conversions. 4. You can use any letter of the alphabet to name a matrix (this is handy because it better supports matrix naming conventions). The TI only supports some letters. The only issue I found with the fx-9860GII is the fact that fractional values displayed inside a matrix are *displayed* as decimal (but thankfully stored a fractions). The TI-84 Plus CE had a much prettier display, however the monochrome display of the Casio was much easier to read. The TI did have one advantage over the Casio, it will display fractions inside a matrix. I also prefer the mat finish on the Casio, as the super glossy finish on the TI84 Plus CE looks and feels cheap, and it attracts fingerprints.

Casio has excellent calculators.

Since my high school and college days, I have been fond on the Texas Instrument series graphing calculators (TI-82 and TI-83) for home use. However, I have had the persistent problem that I cannot see the display in dim lighting, and dust accumulates behind the protective plastic screen (at least on both of my TI-82s). There's no point to have a graphing calculator if you can't read the display without squinting. In contrast, I have found this Casio graphing calculator to be superior in terms of its display, specifically the crispness of the LCD and the backlight feature. You can also customize the power-off and backlight timing, which is convenient. In fact this calculator is the only multi-line calculator on the market that I could find with a backlight (though there are some guides on blogs and personal webpages on how to through the trouble of custom modifying a TI series calculator to incorporate a backlight). One minor complaint is that the buttons on this calculator are slightly smaller than surrounding plastic case, so they jiggle around slightly in a cheap, toy-like fashion.

Although it took a little getting used to from my old ti-84, with the help of a few YouTube tutorials, this bad boy carried me through linear algebra and calc based physics. I appreciated how much nicer matrices appeared on this screen, and passing them between multiple functions. I wish copying was a little simpler, but you can chain together a number of equations with this and in case you mess up one number, you can quickly go back, change it, and get the final result still. Also it is definitely faster than my old ti-84 was, albeit that's not a fair comparison. Just know you won't always get support since many other people use ti due to it being the standard.

I bought this calculator when I was finishing highschool with college in mind. despite not being allowed to use my calculator for many of my courses I have still had the opportunity to test out several interesting features. My major requires I take 3 courses of calculus (differential, integral and vectorial), one of algebra, one of statistics and a couple of econometrics. Many of the topics covered in these courses can be approached through the used of this calculator, for example: integrating equations with limits, plotting graphs, solving several systems of equations, etc. Although I have not been able to explore every function (every menu), I believe that this a great and complete graphic calculator. The interface is much more user-friendly than a TI and does everything a non-engineer might need (and maybe even everything for an engineer?). Last but not least, the service provided was great: no delays in shipping.

Questa forma ci ha datto la scuola~~è molto comoda da usare~~mia fratello usa tanto tanto. Ba non so che scrivere

Was Soll man sagen, der Taschenrechner ist gut, besitzt die nötigen Funktionen. Egal ob Abi oder Studium , wobei ich mich hier eher auf Ingenieur oder BWL beziehe. Ob es für ein Mathestudium reicht kann ich nicht beurteilen. Preis Leistung ist auf jeden Fall gut. Und ach ja, die Lieferung war prompt.

What a great calculator this is. OK its just a calculator, but even so! The screen, which is quite large, is divided into different menus for easy of topics.Speaking of size, this is quite big, the largest calculator I have every had, but that is what I like about it, because you can see previous calculations still on the screen at a glance. I also like that fractions are seen as written on paper, although you can decide in which way to see them on the set up menu. The manual is more of a tome (400+ pages) and comes on a cd, but I have found out most of the elements by trial and error. I also think the manual is not very easy to follow, I have found Youtube to be a better source of info as there are many videos to show how different elements work I also found a great site to add further small programs that help you calculate functions immediately, with just a few info inputs, like finding prime factors, or quadratic division, multiplication etc .... not sure if I am allowed to add a link but here it is http://gfxcprograms.weebly.com/grouped-programs.html the programs are free to download. You can also add Geometry, Physium and probability programs from the casio website. I did find it a bit tricky to add the programs, but got worked it out eventually. Again, info for that can be found on youtube. Very happy with this calculator and I would imagine it will last me into a maths degree too as the menu and abilities are so extensive.

Compared to the TI counterparty (in particular the TI84) it performs exactly the same functions but has an absolutely superior display. Unfortunately, many teachers claim the TI84, even if it is a model that is now completely obsolete.

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