What's Out There for Handheld Math? 92
PowerVegetable asks: "What's the story with handheld computation? Not address books and schedule reminders; I'm talking about the type of stuff computers were invented for. Anyone who's used Mathematica or Maple knows what desktop computers are capable of these days math-wise, but handheld computation seems to have fallen behind on the innovation front. Cell phones and handheld game systems have certainly enjoyed rapid advancement, so where are the handheld mathematical portable oracles? What's available that doesn't have obscure menu systems, bad displays, underpowered processors and unwieldy programming languages? Pickings are slim in the hard-coded calculator industry, but what about Pocket PC's or other programmable portables? Is there any portable solution out there that's more capable than my old HP49g?"
Ummm.... (Score:5, Informative)
Unless I missed something skimming the post, seems like a good solution...
Mathematica and Zaurus (Score:4, Informative)
Easycalc for Palm Pilots (Score:2, Informative)
Symbolic Calculator (Score:5, Informative)
Re:gee. (Score:4, Informative)
He said 49G, no +. The 49G+ is pretty good though. 75-MHz 32-bit ARM9 CPU, 2.5-MB of RAM, and an SD card port, which can hold more than 512-MB. Anything handheld with more power would be called a PDA. And, after you get it, download my library [earthlink.net] of 116 additional functions for it.
ti-89? (Score:3, Informative)
Having said that, there's a nice open source clone of matlab out there called octave. You might be able to run it on a zaurus running linux or something.
I know of three for the Zaurus.... (Score:3, Informative)
Formulae 1 [handango.com] (for writing formulae and recording 'em; I don't think it does a whole lot of calculations, but I could be wrong. Note that it requires Java)
Finally, there's QPlot, which is essentially a frontend to bc.
Re:Ummm.... (Score:4, Informative)
Since its got a keyboard, you won't have to look up many key functions, unless you have a hard time with the alphabet.
Discrete Maths and more - Pari/GP (Score:4, Informative)
It's a bit like Mathematica, but faster, GPL'ed and amazingly well supported (i.e. bugs get fixed within days of reporting).
YAW.
PalmOS - LyME (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Mathematica and Zaurus (Score:3, Informative)
I came pretty close to buying F1, but never did. It looks nice, but doesn't have all of the features that Maxima or Octave have, both or one of which you can get easily and free for Windows CE/PocketPC or Zaurus handhelds. It sure as hell is far away from being Mathematica...
two different great ones: (Score:2, Informative)
Finance, Scientific, Graphing flavors.
Infinity Softworks [infinitysw.com]
Alot like the HP, TI power scientific calcs. Has Pocket PC & Palm versions
CmplxCalcPro:
Has a powerful programming capability, but the UI is a bit rough. Only Palm, I think.
ADACS [adacs.com]
Power48 (Score:2, Informative)
Power48 runs on palms and palm compatibles and it emulates a HP48 at the hardware level.
It is, however, slow and locks up by sony SJ-33 rather often.
It's not as good as a real HP48 because there is no keyboard so it is very hard to tap and click as fast as you can type on a real HP48