On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 01:24:35 GMT, "CW" wrote:

A good calculator will run about $14.00 these days. Much handier (and
faster) than those tables.

Hmm... yeah. But then what happens when you don't have a calculator
handy? People like to walk off with the $2 ones as it is! Nobody
wants to steal a trig table, though if they do, you can print another
off for almost nothing.

That, and dependancy on calculators seems to interfere with people
fully understanding the math. If it's important to do a thousand
calculations very quickly, then it's important to have automated help.
But I'm talking about one or two problems a day- so the time savings
is trivial.