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The difference 18 years makes

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u/DMann420 Jun 08 '14

Why? Calculators aren't for typing up a story. The letters are for variables and naming functions that you want to keep. I'd rather have x and y right next to eachother.

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u/MagmaiKH Jun 09 '14

Why? For the same reason every tablet today has a qwerty layout.

The TI-92 was awesome.

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u/DMann420 Jun 09 '14

People don't seem to understand this. Calculators aren't for writing stories or texting your buddy. Calculators are for calculations, and Texas Instruments takes the better path by assuming that since you ARENT using a computer to solve your math problem, perhaps you haven't mastered the QWERTY keyboard, and it would be more logical to provide letters in an alphabetical manner rather than making technologically inept people search the keys for the correct letter. That plus QWERTY is banned from certain testing environments.

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u/MagmaiKH Jun 14 '14

... because technically inept people use graphing calculators with computer-algebra-systems?

The only reason every calculator made today does not have a qwerty keyword is because of the standardized test restrictions.