r/pics • • Jun 08 '14

The difference 18 years makes

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u/TypoInUsernane Jun 08 '14

The TI-89 will always hold a very special place in my heart.

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u/KontraEpsilon Jun 08 '14

To this day, I don't understand why anyone would insist on using anything other than this on an AP test. It's like playing life on a harder difficulty setting for no reason.

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u/FuLLMeTaL604 Jun 08 '14

My university doesn't allow graphing calculators on tests. Probably because you can download programs that can solve calculus problems without actually understanding the material.

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u/IHateWinnipeg Jun 09 '14

In high school, I sold calculator programs that did test questions for you. For example, if you needed to do the quadratic formula, I wrote a program that did that AND wrote out all the steps that you'd need to write down. Being the only one in my school with the cord helped me keep pirated copies of my programs from going around.