Graphing Calculators

[Perfection]

Yeah, all us math geeks love our calculators, so come on tell us stories of your wonderful little graphing pal.

 

[Pillager]

I owned a Casio fx-992s at school.

It doesn't do graphs, but I was able to write b00bIE5 in hex.

 

[CivCube]

Bah! My Casio scientific can whoop your TI-89 any day!

TO ARMS, MY FRIEND! TO ARMS!

 

[Perfection]

Just do 5319009 and turn it upside down fool!

 

[Siegmund]

HP all the way baby! Reverse Polish is actually logical. Shame they seem to be being out-competed by TI these days. Sort of like it was a shame that TI's nice quality home computers 20 years ago got abandoned... I guess it averages out in the end?

 

[Perfection]

Originally posted by CivCube
Bah! My Casio scientific can whoop your TI-89 any day!

TO ARMS, MY FRIEND! TO ARMS!

Name one thing it can do that my 89 can't.

 

[Mojotronica]

I'm amazed at the intensity of love many people have for their graphing calculators. My baby brother (who's 17) is nuts about his too. He's got games on it, and carries it with him everywhere he takes a backpack. I think his girlfriend is jealous.

I think I own a Ti-81 or 82, which I bought in '97 for Business Math. Since I got the class credit, I never use the thing.

 

[Pillager]

Originally posted by Perfection
Just do 5319009 and turn it upside down fool!

Yes, I'm aware of that thank you , but hex allowed at least some proper letters.

 

[Perfection]

The games on the 89 are excellent, however I usually don't play them because I frequently reset the after forcing it do sadistic equations

 

[WillJ]

I got one'a dem Alpha T1-32 Pluses, Deluxe edition, with a 64-feature dual calculation system. *looks around nervously*

Really, though, I use a basic calculator, the kind with x, +, -, /, square root, square, exponents, fraction-decimal, etc. So yeah, I'm a loser.

But I'm only in eighth-grade (just a few days left, BTW). Next year I'll have a graphing calculator, and I don't know what kind.

 

[CivCube]

Originally posted by Perfection
Name one thing it can do that my 89 can't.

It can:

• not play games.
• use the sun for power.
• not be programmable.
• be laughed at by TI-89 owners, and terrorize them later.
• enter an equation faster.
• be more simple.
• just rock, man.

 

[Pillager]

IIRC, 69! was the calculation that took the longest time on my calculator. We used to waste away maths classes seeing who had the quickest calculator.

 

[Grisu]

I got the wonderful Ti-92 plus, it has saved me many times (and I would hate to use the tiny 89-keyboard

But since I have Matlab installed on my laptop I don't use it as often as I used to.

 

[yaroslav]

I've an HP48GX, old but usefull

 

[Perfection]

Originally posted by CivCube
It can:

• not play games.
• use the sun for power.
• not be programmable.
• be laughed at by TI-89 owners, and terrorize them later.
• enter an equation faster.
• be more simple.
• just rock, man.

First of I said can instead of cannot, secondly the 89 can enter things just as quickly, thirdly It's pretty easy to rig up a solar powered 89. It's very simple to use, and this thing just rocks too!

 

[CivCube]

Enter things just as quickly? Bah. It takes forever for me to hunt and peck the commands. See, with a scientific, the arithmetic buttons aren't mingled with the trig ones.

 

[Stuck_as_a_Mac]

I happen to love my plain old T1-83...
/me sheepishly backs away from the big boys

 

[Knight-Dragon]

What the heck is a 'graphing' calculator? In my days, I used a scientific calculator (when I'm still doing science) - Pillager's model I think.

We did graphs the time-honored traditional way - by hand...

 

[thestonesfan]

Our mathroom in high school had a "Calculator Caddy" for holding graphing calculators. It was made of nice denim.

 

[earendil 1]

I'm in eighth grade and I use a scientific. I really dont care about calculators as I am so sick about factoring quadratic eqautions and looking at parabloas I feel like throwing it against the wall sometimes. Thankfully summer will come really soon.