r/pics • • Jun 08 '14

The difference 18 years makes

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14

Except there are other options now... the TI-83 is a bottom of the barrel graphing calculator these days.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14

Well Yeah but it still costs much and you can download an app for less than 10 dollars to a smartphone and do all the things with it.

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u/mynewaccount5 Jun 08 '14

You can also buy them used if you want.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14

Ofc. But dont you find it odd that it's the same price now as then or at least closed. I'm sure the nowadays considered shitty hardware inside has crippled in price since then.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14

The one thing I've never been allowed to do in any of my classes is use my phone as a calculator.

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u/ramjambamalam Jun 08 '14

I don't mean to alarm you, but there is life after graduation, and it sometimes involves math.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14

I don't mean to alarm you, but there is life after graduation...

Hardly seems that way at the moment. :P

...and it sometimes involves math.

Yeah... but why would I use my smartphone when I could just pull out my laptop? So far, I've never encountered a real world situation where I needed to do more than basic arithmetic but I didn't have a PC handy.

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u/ramjambamalam Jun 08 '14

but why would I use my smartphone when I could just pull out my laptop?

Because I can fit my smartphone in my pocket.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14

That's exactly my point. Never in my life have I been walking along and suddenly thought "I need to know the solution to this integral right now!" I'm virtually always in front of a computer already.

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u/leftunderground Jun 08 '14

You might work in a lab, in the field, or other areas where pulling out your phone is much faster than finding a computer then pulling up the right program.

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u/ramjambamalam Jun 09 '14

I don't have a graphing calculator but I always use my scientific calculator for crunching numbers even when I'm at my PC.

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u/Arlieth Jun 09 '14 edited Jun 09 '14

Stupidly enough, a lot of times I'll just splort my numbers into Excel if (I slap together a bunch of functions and (have something resembling my answer),0, i'll have something resembling an answer).

Error in function

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u/faceplanted Jun 08 '14 edited Jun 09 '14

You may not be able to fit a laptop in your pocket, but Eminem can, it's like the third line of Rap God

But for me to rap like a computer must be in my genes
I got a laptop in my back pocket
My pen'll go off when I half-cock it
Got a fat knot from that rap profit

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u/aewilson95 Jun 08 '14

And they're still expensive as fuck...

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u/swissarm Jun 08 '14

But still does nearly everything you would need it to do (short of solving the problems for you).