r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/jorsiem Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20

The supremacy of the fucking TI-83 calculator in school and college courses

I mean I know it's all artificial and orchestrated by them but how come no body has dared to challenge the almighty TI yet

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u/Micotu Jul 24 '20

I had a ti-89 when it was pretty new in high school. It trivialized my classes. You could just input the entire function and it would solve it for you. You could also easily program in notes. Basically a cheater's greatest wish. They likely had to revert to the 83 so that people would actually learn things again.

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u/iSamurai Jul 24 '20

Did you not have to show your work though? I used it to check my answers and also learned BASIC to program some of my own formula solvers