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This is good advice. Also running a quick function can be quicker than opening up excel, fiddling with a cell, etc. (my excel skills are obviously at-best rudimentary). And it’s a cool moment when RPN finally “clicks” and figure out how to perform sequential operations in it without having to rely on increasingly nested parentheses.


RPN is great. Start at the deepest level and work your way up.

I used to load my HP15c with common formula for engineering and a basic polynomial root finder.




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