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Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by abawany »

nomel wrote: post #93
jhallenworld wrote: post #40

Well Casios are better than TI calculators. My current favorite calculator is Casio ES-115 PLUS2 https://www.amazon.com/Casio-fx-115ESPLS2-Advanced-Scientifi... I like it because when you enter sin(pi/12) you get (sqrt(3)-1)/(2*sqrt(2)) in mathematical notation, which is really nice for a $16 calculator. Here I'm going to hurt TI: If you need a TI-84 or TI-89 for school, the place to get them cheap is shopgoodwill.co…

I really enjoy the HP calculators. RPN is much closer to how my brain perceives the equations.

Unfortunately they seem to have abandoned it on their newer models: I recently got a HP Prime and no RPN in sight afaict (https://www.hp.com/us-en/campaigns/prime-graphing-calculator...) .

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by sjsotelo »

tarkin2 wrote: post #67
m2com wrote: post #6

Slow load, but after a minute it worked for me. Pretty cool!

Yeah. I assumed it was hugged to death. But it does load. Albeit slowly.

One of the few hn times when I try and load it still actually works, impressive little thing!

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by Thetawaves »

imbuhuo wrote: post #95
krallja wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The new ones have rechargeable batteries, color screens, USB, and Python. So, only a decade out of date.

TI still use really outdated hardware (some ARM9 thing) on their high-end nSpire models. With the same price even HP Prime G2 has way better hardware (NXP iMX6ULL, Cortex-A7, 256MB DDR3, USB EHCI OTG) and wide software spectrum (no Secure Boot enforced.) I've put full scale Linux and Windows ARM (arm32 IoT) on that platform.

Fun Fact: New Arm 9 chips are still coming out to this day. They are the highest performing Arm chips that feature generic external bus interfaces.

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by ajsnigrutin »

literallyaduck wrote: post #103

In 2030 I look forward to renting a casio for a web server instead and being happy about it.

By then, the screen will have almost 20% more pixels, the number of variables will be upgraded from 28 to 32, memory will be upgraded from 62kilobytes to 94kilobytes, and adjusted for inflation, it will still be the same price!

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by emodendroket »

crazygringo wrote: post #83
emodendroket wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TI is pretty clearly just coasting on being the one mandated by a lot of schools; there's no way you can justify them still costing like $100 and having the same capabilities as when I was in high school.

I searched for graphing calculator apps on iOS the other day and found a ton that simply attempt to recreate the TI-84, e.g. [1]. So anyone with high school kids: are they still buying $100 physical calculators? Or are they just using free/cheap apps? [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/graphing-calculator-x84/id1247...

There's no way they let you take the SAT with your phone out. Acceptable calculators are actually enumerated though there's more than I realized. https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/taking-the-tes...

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by fouc »

midasuni wrote: post #96
Firerouge wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe we'll get a follow-up on hosting a distributed cluster of casios to handle global load balancing

Back in my day it was a Beowulf cluster running on hot grits serving Natalie Portman pictures

Oh man, Beowulf clusters, I forgot all about those. How come we never hear about them anymore?
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