Check out my new calcu-WTF IS THAT A TOUCHPAD?!

[nstgc]

Interestingly, on my upcoming complex analysis test, I can use a calculator. I don't know which one I'll bring though. Ti-30X II, Ti-83+ or my Ti-89.

[tomoya-kun]

I like the Ti-83+, i've had it for a while.  My favourite though is my Ti-34+ II

[pingryanime]

I still have the TI 84 lol...

I've never used it yet

[tomoya-kun]

I still have the TI 84 lol...

I've never used it yet

Ti-84 has the most games, if that matters to you.

[pingryanime]

it's at the bottom of my backpack, being crushed by the 20lbs in textbooks

[Sakura90]

I just bought a Ti-Nspire as well, you can unlock it and play GB games.

Excellent for Math class :3

The most advanced thing I ever touched... has to be this:



I had it since 2nd year of high school till first year of collage (that's like... for 7 years ), when I abandoned computer engineering and well, almost everything related to numbers. It was... a pretty good partner :3. Back in the day, it was the most "advanced" in the class. I remember using it to solve quadratic and other functions, converting and calculating with binary/hexadecimal/oct, statistics and other things in exams. As no other calculator there could solve those, the teachers never checked mine and I always used it. So it was kinda like... cheating xD (I still had to do the functions and other crap myself, since you had to write everything down, but the little machine helped me check the results). Later a friend of mine bought the fx570 (It was the same but without the solar panel). It was our little "secret" in assignments and exams . Still, that was useful only for the first two years of high school. Then things got harder and the functions in the calc were not longer that "useful". Ahhh, high school... nice memories~ n.n


Now days, anything more advanced than this...



makes me dizzy xD



I better need a kanji calculator now... lol <.<

[rostheferret]

^ That's pretty much what I use, except a slightly older model. My uni used to sell them for about £10 a go and it does everything I needed it to. I kept losing them in my room though, so by the time I finished I had half a dozen of the bloody things :/ If you guys are allowed to bring in anything much more powerful than that in your exams, you've got it easy. In fact, the one above wouldn't be permitted because of that derivation button.

Surely if you need something that far advanced you'd be better off just building an actual mathematical model, rather than plugging in figures?

[Teaparty]

Damn I want a calculator that can play gameboy games...  It'll be a replacement for my Gameboy Color (that I still play) =D

[Rebs]

Hmm. Looks nice. I too am an engineering student, but I still use my Ti-83. And even so, I still don't make use of most of it's functions .

However, this is probably because I have another , admittedly less portable calculator: my laptop .
Does one need a Ti-89 when one can run programs such as "Matlab" and "Maple" on a laptop...

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...Hell No!

[Soulreaper77]

Interestingly, on my upcoming complex analysis test, I can use a calculator. I don't know which one I'll bring though. Ti-30X II, Ti-83+ or my Ti-89.

TI-89 ftw, symbolic contraction + integrals + derivations + differential equations solving power ftw. That thing has spared me many hours of needless writing.

[pingryanime]

Lol smart people.

[isukianime]

don't rely on it too much, learn how to do the problems by hand first.

[nstgc]

Bah! Forgot a calculator, took the test, got an A.

Calculators are for pussies. Real men use MatLab!

[NaRu]

Im still using my TI-89 Titanium

[pingryanime]

But you know, calculators are nice and all, but I still think pen and paper will ultimately serve you better in the long run.


Using calculators mean you don't use your brain, and using pen and paper means you're using a lot of brain, in the long run using a lot more brain means you're a lot better off. x.x

[Soulreaper77]

But you know, calculators are nice and all, but I still think pen and paper will ultimately serve you better in the long run.


Using calculators mean you don't use your brain, and using pen and paper means you're using a lot of brain, in the long run using a lot more brain means you're a lot better off. x.x

While I agree on this, calculators just save you so much time. Especially when you need to work out integrals of the Schrodinger equation for square wells or things like that (those take at least 1 page) and if you accidentally switch a + or a - then you gotta start all over again. And that's where a calculator comes in handy.
But if you don't know how to do those then you should work them out by hand first a couple of times before resorting to the calculator.

[tomoya-kun]

don't rely on it too much, learn how to do the problems by hand first.

Takes too much time.  If you do that, you'll never finish the test.