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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by lozaning on Monday September 23, 2019 @02:11PM (#21051705)
Hell I had a buddy in high school that went through and wrote a custom program that's only function was to perfectly 'emulate' the entire calculators menu system, so that when asked to demonstrate that he had no notes or programs, he could go through the entire process of showing nothing being archived and then wiping the memory.

Dude wound up in the Stanford CS program after high school, so clearly he learned something.

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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by pixelbath on Monday September 23, 2019 @04:50PM (#21053477)
I wonder how many individual variations on this specific functionality have existed or currently exist on TI calculators in the wild. It's common enough that I see it mentioned every time TI calculators are brought up.

When I got my TI-85 (one of the earliest ones), I was one of two kids (the other kid had some $500 HP monstrosity) who had a full-on graphing calculator so "clearing the memory" wasn't even on the teachers' radar. I remember my calculus teacher being impressed that I could simply enter the terms of a binomial equation and it would just spit the answers out. A few years later, TI-83s were simply the required calculator for those classes.

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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by daveFNbuck on Monday September 23, 2019 @08:29PM (#21055280)
A week or two before the AP calculus exam, my calculus teacher had us all line up to install special software for solving exam problems, and then taught us how to use it.

This wasn't really necessary, as I had enough time remaining to redo the whole test without the programs, and then a third run without the calculator.

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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by ChicagoBoy11 on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @08:41AM (#21059439)
Ha! I literally just wrote a reply saying that exact same thing. Crazy to realize how so many kids did this... there should be a club or something. I wonder how good a predictor of doing this in school is of certain lifetime outcome variables...
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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by jedberg on Monday September 23, 2019 @02:12PM (#21051712)
I did that too.
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