Name: Calculator Unboxing #7 (Gaxio) - Numberphile
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T18:06:58.000Z
Duration: 7 min 54 s
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A viewer, a home amateur calculator reviewer, sent me in a calculator I have never seen before

And they emailed and said: "Have you ever seen a Gaxio"

I said I had not, and they got this shipped to me direct from the Gaxio warehouse

And so on the front you can see, it's a Gaxio FG-82MS, very nice

On the back, you have all the options labeled

It comes... it comes with a slide-on hard case™

Oh, down at the bottom there - Made in China

Some of you may think the Gaxio is a little bit familiar, looks vaguely like something you have seen before

Well, I have here our previous review we did of a Casio - a member of the FX series

and you can see - a surprising similiarities, look at that

They're pretty much the same calculator, just in different packaging

one's in a slightly cheaper packet than the other

Other fact - you're now watching an unboxing video in an unboxing video

Now, blatantly the calculators cannot accidentally be this similar

when I saw this it just sent ripples through the calculator fancier community, everyone's outraged

I mean, surely if you're designing a calculator at least design your own calculator

Don't just rip off someone else's making a cheap version of the calculator

I mean, we are outraged. I will not let this go down

I... I am I could not believe that Casio just ripped off Gaxio's fantastic design

So let's get in there and see what the original has to offer

Now, I am a little hesitant to break the package,  I don't want to have to cut into it

If only it came with a little tab so I could open it

Aah! Here we go, look at that, so I can pop that open there

Look at it just slid out! What an action! There's, aah,  the inst--

So often, I open a calculator, the instructions fly one way, calculator the other, I never match them back up again

This, it's all contained, very nice. Put that over there

OK, let's pop the packet open and we have...

OK, so there's the calculator and that slide on hard case

this covers a variety of models, so if you own any of these

And obviously, you're going to have more than one Gaxio around the place,

very unfortunately it's  for the various FX models

and what we have here is actually the Gaxio FG-82MS, not covered by this set of instructions

Now, you might think this is very suspicious that the Gaxio FG series calculator

comes with instructions something labeled the FX series and it's Casio as we know who

OK so that case did indeed slide off hard... and, oh,  here there's the inset in there

and you can see they've not glued it in properly, so if you decide

you want to remove it and stick it to the outside... like so, that is entirely...

Oh, I didn't quite... OK, you get the idea anyways

Look at this, this is the FG series classic, that's good

High quality manufacturing as only Gaxio can do

OK, I don't know who quality control person 28 are but whoever he or she is,

they know a perfect calculator when they see one

Right, let's take this thing out for a spin

2 square root... oh it's around the wrong way oh my goodness

OK, O... OK hang on, so... so, 2 square root equals... nice

Times 2... oh OK. so they know if you're typing 2 a second time

you know what you've typed, why waste an entire part of the display

when they can show you a fraction of it, that.. they've simplified it

Even down here, they've taken chunks off this number here, so you don't need all those extra digits

and you can see, everyone knows the square root of 2 is 1.411... whatever that is... 13

OK, here we go! 2, equals 31.11... something...ok

OK, I'm gonna be honest with you here 31.11... whatever that is... is not quite... 2

But it's not 1.999, so... you know... it's... it's gone different...

a bit more down the line, let's put in π, so we've got π down here,

And let's just try multiplying it by one to see if it can do that

Equals 3.141... something... 9 OK OK OK that's OK, that's not so bad

Let's try dividing by 0 and see what happens here

so you... this calculator's had too much meth

So when I was testing the inferior knockoff Casio FX

you simply type square root of 17 you hit equals and it tells you that it's the square root of 17

So let's see how this one does with that square root of 17 equals... a number

OK, let's multiply that by the square root of 17 and that equals...

OK, I'm doubting myself, I'm gonna to redo root 2 times root 2

Obviously, the first calculation out of the box is just a warmup calculation,

where it gives you a random kind of test... calibration number

Now it's it's... it's... it's actually I can feel it is genuinely it's heating up

it's got quite a nice hand feel, I mean it's got these these kind of wings, which... which is sweet

They're reasonably heavy, they've got what feels like a lot of plastic

I mean the Gaxio, it's environmentally friendly

it doesn't use any more plastic than absolutely necessary

It's got a real light kind of... you know...

And I... I appreciate that dedication to efficiency in manufacturing

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