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Mindless Slave
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Posted - 2007.07.29 03:40:00 -
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Ok so I am an engineering student and need to buy a graphing calculator for college. I have it narrowed down to the TI-89 titanium and the HP 50G but can't decide which one to get.... anyone have experience with them and can recommend either? I wanna get a good one now as I may need to use it in future employment.
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Dark Shikari
Caldari
Imperium Technologies
Firmus Ixion
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Posted - 2007.07.29 03:42:00 -
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Edited by: Dark Shikari on 29/07/2007 03:44:41
TI-89, no contest at all.
I've used the 92 and 89-style calculators for ages and they do everything one could want, from classic Maple-style expression solving to all sorts of fancy programming; I once created a small graphical Earth and Beyond-inspired RPG with it. Well, that was before I learned that using more than 100 GOTOs in a program was a very bad idea. 
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Tarquin Tarquinius
Gallente
Escorts of Eve
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Posted - 2007.07.29 03:47:00 -
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Texas Instruments makes the best calculators.
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Mindless Slave
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Posted - 2007.07.29 03:51:00 -
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thanks for the quick replies.
OH and Dark, I had to look up the TI-92. I guess they don't make em anymore.
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Frug
Zenithal Harvest
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Posted - 2007.07.29 03:52:00 -
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You can, like, port doom to that thing. I'm sure I saw that somewhere.
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Mindless Slave
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Posted - 2007.07.29 03:54:00 -
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Man how bored were you guys in class?
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Tarquin Tarquinius
Gallente
Escorts of Eve
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Posted - 2007.07.29 04:05:00 -
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 Originally by: Frug
You can, like, port doom to that thing. I'm sure I saw that somewhere.
I just stuck with Drugwars, Tetris, and Blockdude
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Kirex
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Vale Heavy Industries
Molotov Coalition
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Posted - 2007.07.29 04:58:00 -
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I have a TI-98. 
BlockDude ftw btw. :S
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Derovius Vaden
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Posted - 2007.07.29 06:42:00 -
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If you have time to play games in Engineering, there is something wrong.  I use a combination of my TI-83+ from High School and some Casio scientific calc. that can do integrals over defined limits and derivatives around a point. Takes the damn thing 20 minutes to chew through a big limit, but saves my ass on most tests.
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Dark Shikari
Caldari
Imperium Technologies
Firmus Ixion
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Posted - 2007.07.29 12:22:00 -
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Originally by: Mindless Slave
thanks for the quick replies.
OH and Dark, I had to look up the TI-92. I guess they don't make em anymore.
TI-92 was very old; early 90s! No flash memory, really slow CPU, etc.
The TI-92 plus is still made though.
Its great because it has a QWERTY keyboard, so its very very easy to program. Its not allowed on some exams though.
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GM Voodoo
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Posted - 2007.07.29 12:26:00 -
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I recommend Texas Instruments. My ancient, clunky TI-82 accompanied me through high school and university and is still in my desk drawer. Never did go into engineering, but I was able to program it with the specific statistical analyses I needed for various social science research projects. And it still works after being alternatively dropped, lost, soaked in tropical rain storms and baked in the sun. Can't recommend them enough.
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Jtbenns
Gallente
QUANT Corp.
Southern Connection
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Posted - 2007.07.29 16:15:00 -
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Originally by: Dark Shikari
Originally by: Mindless Slave
thanks for the quick replies.
OH and Dark, I had to look up the TI-92. I guess they don't make em anymore.
TI-92 was very old; early 90s! No flash memory, really slow CPU, etc.
The TI-92 plus is still made though.
Its great because it has a QWERTY keyboard, so its very very easy to program. Its not allowed on some exams though.
qwerty keyboard are not allowed on the sats and some teachers dont allow qwerty at all. i have my ti-84 now because im only a senior in high school and my teacher wouldnt let me use an ti-89 but if i could, ti-89 all the way...
ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti, nough said... plus ti programming is still pretty easy with an abc keyboard. i do it for everything...
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Derovius Vaden
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Posted - 2007.07.29 19:07:00 -
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Also, an important note that I've not seen mentioned yet: Not all courses let you use function-crazy calculators. In fact, all the classes you really need these sorts of calculators disallow them from all examinations and quizzes (Namely Statics; Dynamics; Calc I/II/III; Linear Algebra is hit or miss - some profs allow them, others don't; Probability and Stats.) They want to test your knowledge of how to do something, not how good you are at using your calc.
This is why I have both a graphing and scientific calc, scientific is what I have to use 8/10 times, with the odd lucky time I get to use my graphing.
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Tarquin Tarquinius
Gallente
Escorts of Eve
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Posted - 2007.07.29 19:29:00 -
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Originally by: Derovius Vaden
Also, an important note that I've not seen mentioned yet: Not all courses let you use function-crazy calculators. In fact, all the classes you really need these sorts of calculators disallow them from all examinations and quizzes (Namely Statics; Dynamics; Calc I/II/III; Linear Algebra is hit or miss - some profs allow them, others don't; Probability and Stats.) They want to test your knowledge of how to do something, not how good you are at using your calc.
This is why I have both a graphing and scientific calc, scientific is what I have to use 8/10 times, with the odd lucky time I get to use my graphing.
The best professors ban calculators from their classes altogether. You learn a lot more that way.
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Derovius Vaden
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Posted - 2007.07.29 19:44:00 -
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Originally by: Tarquin Tarquinius
Originally by: Derovius Vaden
Also, an important note that I've not seen mentioned yet: Not all courses let you use function-crazy calculators. In fact, all the classes you really need these sorts of calculators disallow them from all examinations and quizzes (Namely Statics; Dynamics; Calc I/II/III; Linear Algebra is hit or miss - some profs allow them, others don't; Probability and Stats.) They want to test your knowledge of how to do something, not how good you are at using your calc.
This is why I have both a graphing and scientific calc, scientific is what I have to use 8/10 times, with the odd lucky time I get to use my graphing.
The best professors ban calculators from their classes altogether. You learn a lot more that way.
Actually, the best professors are the ones who teach you to the point that a calculator would just slow you down. A calculator in and of itself is just a tool, and unless you know why the problem needs dot products, cross products or integration, all the calculatoring power in the world won't save you.
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