<p>One time I was taking a statistics class and the professor needed to give me an add-code. But since there were six other students needing add codes and he had only two, he whipped out his graphing calculator and uses it to randomly choose a number to determine which of us would get add codes. I lost and he ushered me out with the feeling of, The calculator has spoken! while he continued lecturing to the class about how he had just demonstrated statistics.</p>
<p>Earlier before this the teacher told us there would be a lot of calculator use and recommended that we buy the most expensive and newest TI with the greatest amount of memory available. Might as well buy the best one! he said, while standing before the poster of a TI 84 that hung on the wall and which he probably kneels in front of while praying five times a day. His calculator was never further away than three feet throughout the lecture, because he carried it when he walked. I wonder if this guy knows what a bible is, but it doesnt matter since he probably has acquired all the information he needs in life from the thick TI instruction Manuel toward which he directed us if we ever had problems in math which he couldnt answer. </p>
<p>ti’s are fine. You can write your own programs on them too in addition to the standard stats package. With the programs I wrote, stats is really easy, especially when you make the disp something meaningful. I learned stats with an 83, but we also learned it on paper with the actual formulas, not just pdf and cdf.</p>
<p>my math professor is pretty calculator crazy… he owns almost every one of the TI’s, and a bunch of other calculators…
I guess he isn’t as bad as yours though.</p>
<p>i took ap stats and the whole course, we handled the ti 83. and i had no idea what on earth we were learning about. never did homework (never understaood why people showed so much enthousiasm to do that tedious incomprehensible riddles) never spent an hour on the class and miraculously, passed the ap test…i was like…dude, this is most jacked up class in history of advanced placement.</p>
<p>and if i didn’t pass the test, i might have had to transfer in two years…it’s a miracle…still dumbfounded…</p>
<p>i was able to program kineto-synthetist I09 in my ti 83 recently. the pgrm read is tremendous.</p>
<p>my achievments in the field of calculators:
uploaded windows 95 on ti 89 (not very challenging and useless. need to reduce memory to do anything)</p>
<p>created sophisticated telecommunication zappers called “radio-hydros”…</p>
<p>destroyed the the memory drive of ti 89 and replaced it will tycoon-waresofter which is a dried version of the quick short-term memory.</p>
<p>another telecommunication link called “pont” (bridge). first developed in france, but expanded in a creative s-d animation via 2HOIFG44 linkage modem</p>
<p>uploaded windows 95 on ti 89 (not very challenging and useless. need to reduce memory to do anything)"</p>
<p>that is so cool! i didn’t understand the rest of your post, but how do you do that??!! do you think i could do that with a ti84 plus silver edition? its only like one level below an 89. if not, what’s the coolest thing i could download on a ti84+silver?</p>
<p>uhh…actually i take my words back. i didn’t actually “upload” windows…it’s a long story…i kind of forgot exactly what i did cuz i was a computer-sciencelecto pirate fanatic back then…but i can summarize: i had to take calculator apart, adjuncted several computer pieces, to allow it to have the regular operating system without all the special features…basically, another version of improved graphical user interface…so, not really windows 95 cuz it’s useless!!!</p>
<p>for ti 84 or even 83, it’s possible to put a windows 95 or even 98, but i don’t know how.</p>
<p>The TI-89 actually uses the same processor, the Motorola 68000, as the old Macintosh SE (the kind with the black and white screen that you probably had in elementary school).</p>
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