Overclocking Calculators?

Klar writes "If you're looking for something new to prove your tech prowess, Richard Piotter has a great how to on overclocking Texas Instruments graphing calculators. You can actually double the cpu speed, which is noticeable when graphing complex functions."

Comments

Not only is it faster

[Anonymous Coward]

But I get better results! Before, 1+1 was always 2, but now it's 2.0358!

Re:Not only is it faster

[Michael Woodhams]

As always, Hewlett Packard got there first and better. (Yes, HP was once a great company, before the current management took over.) The very first hand-held scientific calculator, the HP35 in 1972, calculated exp(ln(2.02))=2. reference.

Next:

[Pig Hogger]

Beowulf clusters of overclocked T.I. calculators!!!

pfft

[Anonymous Coward]

Pfft, tell me when you've over clocked a pencil and paper.

Re:pfft

[SamSim]

What do you call a printer?

Re:pfft

[fcw]

I dunno, but I know how to call one: "Heeere, printy, printy, printy."

Dammit!

[Faust7]

I tried to overclock my slide rule, but it just went up in smoke.

Re:Dammit!

[FiReaNGeL]

According to the paper :

[Problem] 30 x 40 = ?
[Solution]
(1) Bring 30 on the bezel ruler and 10 on the dial ruler in line.
(2) Read the number on the bezel ruler scale corresponding to 40 on the dial ruler
scale. The number is 12 (= 1.2 x 101 ).
(3) Calculate the number of digits following the formula in " Hint for calculation of the
number of digits".
In this case:
30 = 3 x 101, 40 = 4 x 101, and 12 = 1.2 x 101
Z = 1+1+1(1.2 3, 4)
Z = 3
c = 1.2
C = 1.2 x 103 = 1200
[Answer] 1200

Sure speeds things up I guess :)

Not new at all

[Anonymous Coward]

This is soooo old. I overclocked my TI calc several years ago, putting a snazzy OC switch on the side. All of my friends were terribly impressed.

On the other hand, it didn't really help in my classes, except to get the wrong answer faster...

In the words of...

[MightyPez]

the Futurama cryogenic lab tech.... "Welcooome....To the WOOOOORLD of 5 YEARS AGO!"

What about a wrist watch?

[Mario21]

I overclocked my casio wrist watch. Now I have all the time I need.

Re:What about a wrist watch?

[TheGratefulNet]

I overclocked my ethernet card.

problem is: where can you find hubs that support 12/120?

Re:Graphing complex functions?

[oobob]

You graph complex numbers in the complex plane, silly =) One axis is the real axis and the other is the imaginary axis. Here's a brief intro from the math forum (a written intro, without graphics), and here's some more examples from a graphic intensive site that shows how you can perform operations on complex numbers like vectors. You can also do neat stuff like find the complex roots of numbers by manuiplating the graph, which is also mentioned in the 2nd site.

Re:From the

[RonnyJ]

Too Much Time On Their Hands Department.

Just wait til someone finally manages to overclock their watch :)

Already done

[Anonymous Coward]

Already done - your job's been outsourced to India, where they do your paper-and-pencil work faster for a quarter of the price.

Oh, we're cutting costs, so make sure to return your pink slip with your badge so we can use them both again.

Re:hot off the press..

[Oliver Defacszio]

I overclocked Earth the day before the dinosaurs died.

Re:Slashdot...

[NanoGator]

"ammm.... is this really a news item or just some sad person with way to much time." ... said the guy posting on Slashdot.

Re:Doom 3?

[tepples]

You can run Doom 3 on any graphing calculator: just load up a black screen.

But can it run linux?

[Joshua53077]

or play .ogg files?