The first thing I look for in a calculator is that you can enter numbers in scientific notation without hitting a Shift button.
It's my HP41CV that basically never gets used. Back when, I wrote a program on it, 'ampsr', to calculate ideals and then find the closest standard-value matches for a three-resistor attenuator network used as the gain-and-offset control of an opamp amplifier; it took 16 minutes for my HP41CV to arrive at the answer, and that was just selecting among the E24 "5%" standard-value array. My later Perl version, by comparison, is all but instantaneous even working with the E96 array and running on a 400MHz box. The HP41CV's programmability was great for its era; not so much, now.
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