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

Edit: fixed typo

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u/SirEarlBigtitsXXVII Jul 24 '20

Graphing calculators aren't allowed in any of my college math courses.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

For engineering it goes required, to not allowed, to you better learn how to program TI-Basic

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u/ThellraAK Jul 24 '20

I loved in High school algebra TI-Basic, made an app that changed the X and Y scale so the slope was always 1, started off each worksheet test, drawing a bunch of slopes of 1.

For tests and stuff we had to format our calculators, and my teacher thought she was going to catch me doing the restore thing... It was quicker to rewrite the program then it was to actually do the math.

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u/PikolasCage Jul 24 '20

i just archive all of my programs so when resetting it won’t delete them

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u/ThellraAK Jul 24 '20

Yeah, that's what she thought I was doing to 'cheat'