I took college level calculus, physics, and astronomy and did not need a graphing calculator.
A programmable calculator, when computers were not readily available, was damned useful though.
Isn't it against the law to dig up such things in the UK and not report them? If so, reporting them was a good thing. He should get some amount of value from the find.
Hope he didn't tear up the place digging them up or the archaeologists will be pissed.
These things would have been used for paying taxes usually. Wonder what sort of place they came out of.
I managed high school and three semesters of college calculus without using a calculator. Since I was in computer science, the math then turned to the sort where a caluculator would be no use at all, graphing or otherwise.
We did a lot of graphing by hand in high school, that may be why I didn't miss having a machine to do it for me.
In astronomy in high school they did not allow calculators at all, but did allow me to use my slide rule. This made solving problems made to be done by hand ( since no one was to use a calcualtor )lots quicker, so I always finished first.
Direct experience. People at work upgraded to IE 6 when it came out and at Microsofts suggestion. That is, not when it first came out, but when Microsoft thought it was good enough for everyone to use and started advertising IE 6 existence and suggesting people upgrade.
Suddenly, they started receiving empty emails in Outlook.
After a whole day of ruling out things and reading through Microsoft help pages, I find the fix. A couple days earlier and there would not have been a fix to find.
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Sure, just enter the race and see how you do.
I took college level calculus, physics, and astronomy and did not need a graphing calculator. A programmable calculator, when computers were not readily available, was damned useful though.
Isn't there a version of the OS that allows standard Java to run on it? Tried to load it, couldn't get it to work.
Isn't it against the law to dig up such things in the UK and not report them? If so, reporting them was a good thing. He should get some amount of value from the find. Hope he didn't tear up the place digging them up or the archaeologists will be pissed. These things would have been used for paying taxes usually. Wonder what sort of place they came out of.
If you mod me down now, I shall become more powerful that you can possibly imagine.
Freenet has been around that long hasn't it?
Wow, spelled that right first time.
I managed high school and three semesters of college calculus without using a calculator. Since I was in computer science, the math then turned to the sort where a caluculator would be no use at all, graphing or otherwise.
We did a lot of graphing by hand in high school, that may be why I didn't miss having a machine to do it for me.
In astronomy in high school they did not allow calculators at all, but did allow me to use my slide rule. This made solving problems made to be done by hand ( since no one was to use a calcualtor )lots quicker, so I always finished first.
Direct experience. People at work upgraded to IE 6 when it came out and at Microsofts suggestion. That is, not when it first came out, but when Microsoft thought it was good enough for everyone to use and started advertising IE 6 existence and suggesting people upgrade.
Suddenly, they started receiving empty emails in Outlook.
After a whole day of ruling out things and reading through Microsoft help pages, I find the fix. A couple days earlier and there would not have been a fix to find.
.5 = 5/10 .25 = 25/100 .125 = 125/1000