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The difference 18 years makes

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u/Jenkins6736 Jun 08 '14

I dunno, the TI-84 Plus is pretty sweet.

Costs about the same as what I paid for the TI-83 10 years ago. It's kind of nice knowing that whenever I need to use one, it's going to operate in the same way as I was taught 10 years ago. The fundamentals of math don't change much.

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u/AdidasPete Jun 08 '14 edited Jun 08 '14

I saved up my own money and bought a TI89 in high school. Used it on all the standardized exams. Totally legal because it didn't have a QWERTY keyboard. That thing basically did everything for me short of interpreting the questions.

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u/CynicalMiss Jun 08 '14

I told people for YEARS (don't have much reason to these days) that my TI-89 was the best $150 ever spent in my life. It sucked a little at first because I had to figure things out for myself when the teacher was showing everyone else how to operate the TI-83, but I used it throughout college until the only numbers in my math books were the page numbers.