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Posted: 9/10/2011 1:10:16 PM
Originally Posted By avtomat_badassnikov:
Real ballers dont need graphing calculators. I made it all the way through Diff-Eq with a TI-30   |
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Posted: 9/10/2011 1:45:49 PM
[Last Edit: 9/10/2011 7:17:13 PM by RonnieJamesDioFan]
Originally Posted By LuckyDucky:
Originally Posted By 2W0X1:
ti83+, the 89 was restricted in most of my math courses. the chem apps on the 83 came in handy during a couple gen chem exams  You cheated?! "I changed the conditions of the test. Got a commendation for original thinking. I don't like to lose." ––- Admiral James T. Kirk, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan |
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Posted: 9/10/2011 6:05:13 PM
Originally Posted By wyager:
Originally Posted By avtomat_badassnikov:
Real ballers dont need graphing calculators. I made it all the way through Diff-Eq with a TI-30 |
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Posted: 9/10/2011 10:10:10 PM
Full nerd
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Posted: 9/10/2011 10:18:44 PM
Originally Posted By Tolip:
Full nerd TI-89 You need a TI-Voyage 200 to claim that title. |
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Posted: 9/10/2011 10:36:32 PM
HP 11C, circa 1980 or so..
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Posted: 9/11/2011 9:51:07 PM
Originally Posted By avtomat_badassnikov:
Originally Posted By Tolip:
Full nerd TI-89 You need a TI-Voyage 200 to claim that title. I bought a TI-92 a few months after it came out (still have it somewhere, too). Do I win?  |
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Posted: 9/16/2011 8:03:37 AM
I've been comparing the functions/ease of use of these two calculators lately - TI 36XPro and Casio fx-115es. The Casio has been very popular for a few years now, the TI is a fairly new model. So far, the TI gets my vote for its more intuitive design.
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Posted: 9/16/2011 11:23:12 AM
[Last Edit: 9/16/2011 11:24:57 AM by 2W0X1]
Originally Posted By RonnieJamesDioFan:
Originally Posted By LuckyDucky:
Originally Posted By 2W0X1:
ti83+, the 89 was restricted in most of my math courses. the chem apps on the 83 came in handy during a couple gen chem exams You cheated?! "I changed the conditions of the test. Got a commendation for original thinking. I don't like to lose." ––- Admiral James T. Kirk, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan "if your not cheating you're not trying" Mark Grace it falls in somewhat of a grey area of cheating. the instructor never restricted us from using those calculator functions, and I never told him because it's not my job to educate a chem professor about calculators 
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Posted: 9/18/2011 9:48:22 AM
 I have about 6 of these, all the older model that is smaller and has the better rubber buttons. I've used them from algebra in middle school to Calc3 in college and still use them every day. |
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Posted: 9/18/2011 9:53:10 AM
TI-83+ only because that is what they are using in my Calc class. Easier to use what they teach on, rather than trying to adapt it to something different.
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Posted: 9/18/2011 11:18:12 AM
I used a TI-36 Solar for my first two years then bought a TI-89 Titanium (On sale at Staples + $20 off coupon) when I decided to continue on for my Bachelors.
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Posted: 9/18/2011 11:22:21 AM
How the fuck do you "rock" a calculator? Fucking hippies and their hippie words.
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Posted: 10/2/2011 12:55:10 PM
I have a Ti83 and a Ti30 something. I actually like the 30 better because it just makes more sense. For example I can type fractions in as I see them not with the divide symbol. It just doesn't do as much. I wish they made the ti 80 series like that.
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Posted: 10/2/2011 4:32:19 PM
TI-89, all the way from high school in 05 to last may, i would not have my BSEE without it. Thinking about gold plating it lol.
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Posted: 10/2/2011 4:38:41 PM
HP32S
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Posted: 10/3/2011 12:31:41 AM
MatLab, Fortran, TI-89 Titanium, and my brain have been my go-to calculation devices through my BSME, as well as halfway through my MSME (Current). Between the three, you don't need any other tools.
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Posted: 10/3/2011 9:35:20 AM
HP15c.
And an HP16c I found at a yard sale; I know nothing of the binary mode, but it does all the simple stuff I need, and the price was right. And it's RPN! |
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Posted: 10/7/2011 10:42:46 PM
HP12C
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Posted: 10/8/2011 8:35:26 AM
Still using a TI-92 that I got for doing my undergrad in BSME back in 1998. That plus a bit of MATLAB is getting me through a Master's in Aero Engineering just fine.
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Posted: 10/8/2011 10:40:37 PM
HP48SX - It was REQUIRED for all CE majors when I was in school.
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Posted: 10/9/2011 10:39:24 PM
[Last Edit: 10/9/2011 10:39:39 PM by angelfire]
HP scientific
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Posted: 10/10/2011 10:11:44 AM
HP48G, grad gift when I was still planning being an electrical engineer. Screen is dying on it tho
Couple of Casio fx-115s. Good enough for machining  |
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Posted: 10/11/2011 12:58:06 AM
TI-89 titanium
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Posted: 10/16/2011 10:30:08 AM
ti-83+
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Posted: 10/18/2011 8:11:01 PM
I have a TI-89 somewhere that I bought when I started college. Ended up having to use a TI-30 to take my FE test and found I liked it more for 95% of my calculating needs. Use my Droid a lot too.
When you really need to do math, Maple or Matlab is the way to go. |
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Posted: 10/20/2011 9:24:09 PM
Originally Posted By eastonj:
HP 48G, and the iPhone 48G emulator (m48). I've used HP since my sophomore year of college (1994). TI is the Bose of the calculator world. Great advertising and name recognition, but poor performance compared to others in the market. Still use my 48G every day. Using it since about 1992. I'll have to checkout the iPhone app. |
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Posted: 10/22/2011 3:28:33 PM
HP48G for the win....been using mine since '94. I change the batteries every few years and have no issues. I really like the IR port on it......beaming info back and forth between classmates in high school was fun....but running the tv remote app to disrupt boring movies (causing the teacher to think that there was something actually wrong) was a lot of fun....and still is!
Super easy to use once you figure out how it works.....and the stacks are awesome! And the really nice thing....I know that no one is ever going to ask to use it (or walk off with it). Beyond the equations that it came with, I programmed in every one that I needed for any class (math through physics)..... I also have a TI-84+ that all of my current textbooks refer to....but I find it awkward and simplistic. I can't make it do what I want and end up having to repeat steps that I don't have to with the 48G.....so I use the 48G on exams and the Professors reminisce. |
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Posted: 10/31/2011 8:18:57 PM
Originally Posted By MP15T: Ti-89 Have been using it since high school back in 2002. Still use it everyday at work. Same here. I dread the day something happens to it. Maybe I should buy a spare. |
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Posted: 11/1/2011 8:56:26 PM
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First two years of engineering school (74, 75) we were not permitted to use calculators in certain courses during exams. Slide rules ruled. I still have my first, a Pickett, and a Keuffel & Esser that was given to me by an upperclassman who finally graduated to full use of his HP35.
Still, I bought a new HP45 for $365 in 1974 dollars to use for homework and the courses that did permit calculators, and it still balances my checkbook. I adapted NiMH phone batteries to run it. At work, my daily use calc is an HP41CV, bouught new in the early 80s when introduced. Or a Sama & Etani circular slide rule. Noah |
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Posted: 11/17/2011 2:29:56 PM
Ti-85 until I die or, it stops working.
The little bastard cost me $150 back in high school, I'm taken it to my grave. |
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Posted: 11/17/2011 2:35:15 PM
TI-89 from college calculus class.
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Posted: 11/17/2011 2:37:10 PM
[Last Edit: 11/17/2011 2:38:47 PM by RDTCU]
Originally Posted By fatalerror113:
Originally Posted By gck5150:
http://static.rarbg.com/posters2/3/316ad78d8896bb49dc52007c737601fd4aedcbdb.jpg Does it mean I am a nerd if I knew what brand of software that graphic is from?
I once wrote a 300 line code in Matlab to optimize the uni-directional carbon fiber layup schedule of an aircraft wing for weight, stiffness and planar fexure (no twisting while bending) ETA: Try asking Matlab "why" and see what it tells you. Then try it again. The variances are limitless. |
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Posted: 11/21/2011 8:59:33 AM
I have had an older TI-83+ for about 10 years or so. It has served me well.
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Posted: 11/27/2011 1:04:58 PM
Wolfram Alpha on a smart phone.
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Posted: 11/27/2011 1:31:36 PM
TI-85 : High school through college, still my calculator of choice for almost everything.
TI-89: Grad school, still don't know how to use all of the functions, but fun to play with the built-in CAS. Matlab: Grad school, with symbolic math toolbox, still useful (but my version is 12 years old). New non-student copies are EXPENSIVE. Maxima: FREE CAS with good symbolic manipulation, decent graphing. I use it and recommend it to my students. I think my next purchase will be the home license version of Mathematica. I had a copy of mma around version 3, it that was part of an award for a conference presentation, but it was the student version and I had already graduated...so I couldn't use it (they wouldn't give me a key for it, even though they had donated it to the conference as an award.  )
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Posted: 11/29/2011 9:08:41 PM
Originally Posted By Knight-Mason:
Ti-85 until I die or, it stops working. The little bastard cost me $150 back in high school, I'm taken it to my grave. Finally! Figured I was the only geek with a TI-85. I bought mine back in 1995. It got me though my bachelors, backpacked thru India on a semester abroad, 10+ years in an Engineering career and still going strong. All those coffee and soda spills just temporarily make the buttons sticky. The professors in India were terrified of it...didn't let me us it for tests. |
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Posted: 12/5/2011 12:39:51 AM
I use the TI-83+. Served me well in HS Algebra, Pre Calc, and Calc. I used it for College Algebra and Statistics as well. Happy with it.
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Posted: 12/9/2011 9:25:39 AM
my HP41 CV is still rockin'
I saw how much these were going for on eBay and crapped a biscuit |
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Posted: 12/9/2011 9:27:44 AM
Hp 48sx
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Posted: 12/9/2011 9:28:43 AM
Well, most of the time, cell phone.
When I need to graph, I've got a TI-83+ |
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Posted: 12/13/2011 2:04:38 AM
TI-89 Titanium since i was a freshman in high school and throughout college, i have gotten very proficient with it. I personally think it is one of the best handheld calculators ever made, and all my stuck up professors who "banned" it can fuck off.
I took engineering with Excel and MATLAB last year and learned how to use them to do math, I dislike MATLAB because it is to tedious. I also use the HP40gs as my backup... |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 1:05:17 AM
Originally Posted By Uberjager:
I'm running a TI-83+, and I'm currently in Calc III. Next semester I'll be in Diff Eq and Linear Algebra, it's one class. What are my brochachos of this board using? Got thru engr degree with the same ti-83+ from the turn of the millennium. sits on the desk next to imputer <3 keep studying really hard, it BLOWS if you don't |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 1:11:23 AM
Originally Posted By avtomat_badassnikov:
Originally Posted By wyager:
Originally Posted By avtomat_badassnikov:
Real ballers dont need graphing calculators. I made it all the way through Diff-Eq with a TI-30
^bit of an optical illusion
oh and why none of this yet?  |
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Posted: 1/5/2012 8:29:24 PM
TI-36X. Still using the same one I used for all 4 years of engineering school and the licensing exam several years later. I have been looking for another one but haven't seen any lately at the usual stores (Target, Wallmart, ect).
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Posted: 1/17/2012 9:22:19 PM
Originally Posted By avtomat_badassnikov:
Originally Posted By Tolip:
Full nerd TI-89 You need a TI-Voyage 200 to claim that title. I've got a Voyage 200 . But when I don't use MATLAB these days I use a Casio fx-115ES (I got into the habit as an undergrad since the department made us use FE approved calculators, and IMHO that is the best one). |
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Posted: 2/4/2012 4:13:43 PM
TI-85, another TI and some$1 cheap o's that were given to me.
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Posted: 2/4/2012 8:00:50 PM
In high school, it was a TI-30- it had red LEDs, and took a 9V battery. In college, I started with a TI-55 II, which died, and TI replaced it with a TI-55-III (I think those are the versions.) From there, an HP-11C, and an HP-41C, which I ended up selling to a friend's brother.
After college- HP-42S, until I was given an HP-48GX, which I use some, but mainly I use the EMU-48 on my PC. I have some other HP's, as well as a Casio and a TI-83+, but those are in storage. |
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Posted: 2/4/2012 11:30:33 PM
TI84 got me from freshman year of high school to senior year in college. Anything significantly better is typically banned on tests anyway.
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