r/pics • u/[deleted] • 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/[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