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Casio Graphing Calculator | 
| Brand: Casio
Category: CE
List Price: $79.99
Buy New: $63.55
You Save: $16.44 (21%)
New (23) Used (2) from $53.98
Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Color: Gray
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Battery: 4 AAA
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0
MPN: FX-9860G-L-IH
Model: FX-9860G-L-IH
UPC: 079767171889
EAN: 0079767171889
ASIN: B0009JFDHM
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Product Description
The FX-9860G Graphic Calculator has a large, high contrast display with dual screen capability. Icon memu provides easy access to advanced functions. All the functionality of the FX-9750GPlus with USB connectivity, 1.5MB flash memory, natural display capability and a PC Emulator. - Suggested Courses for the FX-9860G Graphing Calculator include: Pre-Algebra, Algebra I and II, Geometry, Trigonometry, Calculus, Statistics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Finance and Business. - The FX-9860G is allowed on all major exams like AP, SAT I/II, PSAT/NMSQT, ACT and state level assessments allowing graphic calculators.
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 Best calc out there for the bucks. September 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the best graphing calculator you can buy for under $100, period. I teach mathematics, and have used everything you can imagine, from TI to HP to Sharp and Canon, and this is the fastest sub-$100 graphing calc out there, nearly twice as fast to draw functions as the TI 84, which runs at least $20 more ($35 more at educational prices). It is also faster than my first generation TI89, and unlike the TI89, is legal to be used for ACT and SAT tests.
The menu navigation takes a few minutes to learn, but then it is easy, and much faster to do most things, compared to the TI and other calcs. For instance, it takes four button presses to find the zeroes of a quadratic, rather than the nine (or more) it takes on a TI.
The USB port means you can use it to write to a computer screen with the downloadable software, as well as use the computer to write to the calc; (you must supply the USB cable), and you can also hook to other Casios with the included non-USB wire.
The manual is online, or in a CD included with the calculators I bought. (is that still true?)
The screen isn't the best around, but is plenty good enough for my 45 year old eyes.
If you want a calc that will get you through anything from Algebra to Calculus and beyond, this is the one.
 Inaccessible so I threw it away April 29, 2008
1 out of 12 found this review helpful
Unlike some higher end Casio calculators this one has a readable screen - sort of - at least it has acceptable contrast. However, the icons look cheap ( low resolution ). The unit is very, very solid. It can survey a lot of abuse, dropping, etc. ( see below )
It does not come with a printed manual and the extremely basic printed get started manual is almost worthless. It is sometimes counterintuitive to use as navigation is inconsistent. I got stuck in a menu and couldn't get out of it. I let a friend look at it and she didn't progress either. Eventually we figured it out. ( what we figured out was that it was a pain - bad human factors, to say the very least. )
Unfortunately, it has blinking cursors and as soon as I got to that point I had fairly bad seizures. My friend was there and I had to have her go away as I am just trying to maintain through the pain in my head. ( these are complex/simple partial seizures which feel like a shock through my brain or getting hit with a rubber mallet. Once is enough, several were way too many.
I was unwilling ( and very afraid ) to experiment since I got clobbered immediately. She wanted to play with it but I didn't even want to be tempted to use it again so I stripped everything useful and threw the calculator in the garbage on the curb.
There is NO excuse for products to be inaccessible in this manner ( or any other manner ). Calculators are necessary for students and they shouldn't be exposed to this type of product. ( BTW, Texas Instruments calculators are hopeless, too. I have a box of them that I can use due to blinking. I contacted TI about the lack of accessibility and, of course, never got a meaningful response )
If we assume that one or two persons in ten thousand have problems ( epilepsy 1 or 2 in 100 and photosensitive epilepsy 1-5 per 100 ), we are talking about many thousands of people that will have problems.( This whole area of expertise is very obscure, unless you have a spectacular seizure that can be clearly associated with a particular stimulus, doctors are going to miss this problem. I know, I told doctors many, many years ago about fluorescent lights and video display terminals and I still can't get help or accessibility. NOW WITH EVERYTHING BLINKING THE PROBLEM IS 100 TIMES WORSE )
Maybe you are next? Green is not just a color, it is a philosophy. Blinking is not green.
My friend ( who helps me with my disabilities ) said I probably shouldn't even buy anything more since I have problems with 100% of modern electronic equipment. She is probably right. Digital cameras are particularly offensive. I purchased a Fuji camera and , again, I couldn't use it. Big bucks down the drain. I have one of the small Casio EX-V8 digital cameras and the jury is still out on it. An inferior camera compared to Nikon ( very inaccessible ) or Canon ( inaccessible ) digital cameras.
Accessibility is the LAW and so is accommodation. I assume the problem is that all of these companies outsource their software to unqualified ( from a point of accessibility and, maybe, human factors ) programmers. Their cheapness costs us money.
That's trickle down economics - the profits rise to the top and the rest of us get disabled.
dont know all the good stuff yet October 27, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have this product and it seems good so far though i can't really use all the stuff yet , it certainly helped me in my stats midterm. I'm just worried that it might be problem since my school is so TI83/84 based, but i wasn't dropping that kind of money for one. This is just as good, just learn the manual
Excelent Calculator January 4, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Its an excelent calculator, with many useful functions, better than HP and more easy to use!!!!
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