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The Best Graphing Calculator on the Market?
aaronbeekay asks: "I'm a sophomore in high school taking an honors chem course. I'm being forced to buy something handheld for a calculator (I've been using Qalculate! and GraphMonkey on my Thinkpad until now). I see people all around me with TIs and think 'there could be something so much better'. The low-res, monochrome display just isn't appealing to me for $100-150, and I'd like for it to last through college. Is there something I can use close to the same price range with better screen, more usable, and more powerful? Which high-tech calculators do you guys use?"
There is just something fundamentally appealing to owning a powerful calculator 90% of the population can't even add two numbers on...
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I disagree. I paid about $300CAD for my Ti-89 and not only is not allowed on tests neither at the grade 12 level nor first year college
Maybe it's because you're in Canadia. In the US, the TI-89 is explicitly allowed on tests administered by the college board (but not ACT). It's also the reason I bought it, the TI-92 isn't allowed on any tests.
mine's already broken after only about 2 years of seldom use.
How odd, I bought mine when it was first release (1998) and it's still going strong. Maybe it's the Canadian weather that caused yours to fail. Also, you're not supposed to use it while taking a shower.
"Oh, and you could probably dip it in motor oil, and it would still work"
Don't know about your HP-48 (which I own too, by the way), but one day the tomcat puked right onto my old HP-32S, which it didn't appreciate at all. I had to disassemble it (try that with the tank-like construction of HPs, took me me 2 hours) in order to clean it and make it work again.
>> Excuse me, I have to go hug my palm. So THAT's what they call it nowadays, eh?
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.addictive very is RPN ,agree I
The best part about RPN is when that smart-ass pre-med in chem lab borrows it, punches in a bunch of numbers, and then asks, "Where's the equals key?"... Priceless
Would it not be better to say:
enter palm
enter freeware
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awesome hp48 emulator
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When I was in high school a lot of students used those "notes" for chemistry tests since we were allowed a calculator. Eventually word got out and when we went into Calc one day, the teacher collected all the calculators for inspection (they were all owned by the school and issued for the year, so they could do this). Everyone who had any text notes about chemistry in them caught hell. Can't remember exactly what happened, but it wasn't pretty, and we were banned from using any graphing calculators in chemistry from that point on.
Luckily, I'd never stored any notes in my calc, but several of my friends had.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
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And when I say, "I'd run that program," what I really mean is, "I'd imagine myself running the program, but didn't have the balls to actually do it." I mean, that's cheating.
enter palm
enter freeware
enter +
awesome hp48 emulator
hmm actually, I think it would be better to say
palm [ENTER]
freeware [ENTER] +
awesome hp 48 emulator
In other words
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