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JakobVirgil  ·  4440 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: TI-84 Plus C Color-Screen Calculator, screens leaked.

I have never understood the TI thing.

for me math is whiteboards and paper and if they don't work...

C, mathematica, and matlab and if they don't work ...

whiteboards and paper.

where does the Calculator fit in?

[I can make the bat symbol on one so there is that but what else?]





mk  ·  4440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's been a while, but I used my TI for derivatives and integrals, and for finding roots in Diff EQ. That and arithmetic.

I might carry around a notepad with Mathematica instead these days. Actually, I suppose you just need a browser and Wolfram Alpha. I used Maple a lot at the time. Does anyone still use it?

JakobVirgil  ·  4439 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I loved maple

cgod  ·  4439 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Haha, I loath maple.

I like that the TI is small and simple, fits in my pocket, pretty simple UI when you get the hang of it, but also quite powerful and programmable. If I can't do it with a TI then I start to think about a computer.