I think you might have killed the calculator by posting it here. LOL
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This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator
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#182Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator
#183Well 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 don't know what TI ever did to you, but I know that I would not cross you lightly.
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#184Last year I bought I used TI for my daughter who needed it for school. I got her the oldest version, the one which takes AAA batteries and communicates with the outside world through a serial link. A project like this brings to mind the possibility of stuffing a Raspberry Pi Zero in the battery compartment, hooking it up to the school WiFi, using a terminal app on the calculator to communicate with the Pi and in that…
One of my proudest cheats was cramming the keywords of an entire presentation in French on a tiny round piece of paper, stuck to the glass of my wrist watch, so I could literally cheat while the whole class and teacher were watching me. Somehow I actually got away with multiple glances, only receiving a single remark about "being a bit too focused on the duration of my presentation". My cousin, who has always did hav…
How is having the transcript of the presentation cheating and not just being prepared?
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#185Earlier 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.
Oppositely here in Japan (where Casio locates), high school students usually don't use calculators on math/physics classes.
That's interesting and somewhat surprising to me. Do they use slide rules and/or function value tables printed on paper?
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#1868 years ago I worked for an LED lights company which had a bright idea to put whole ucLinux + webserver to be ran on a microcontroller on an LED light to put a claim on just how smart they are, and that now they are "an Internet company" like as if the dotcom bubble hasn't happened.
So it was a $1 LED light board + $32 some old, and exotic MCU setup with own external memory, power supply, etc (even by 2013, ucLinux was already "very dead" without any new MCU support for 8-7 years.)
Aside from most extreme size limitations for the HTML UI, I was genuinely surprised just how snappy it was.
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#187Why did I click on this expecting a calculator out of all the possible servers would withstand HN's hug of death? Smart of the commenters here archiving it before it inevitably went down
Because static pages on a calculator likely to be more reliable and faster than whatever hipster stack is popular running on some VC funded pile of compute power across all of Amazon's datacenters.
FWIW I still saw the link at #1, clicked it almost in exasperation after seeing it at the top of HN all day, and was pleasantly surprised to see it load. Bravo, little calculator.
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#188Well 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 don't know what TI ever did to you, but I know that I would not cross you lightly.
They're exploiting an effective monopoly position (through schools mandating their usage). I can see that being enough of a reason to push back against that.
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#189Last year I bought I used TI for my daughter who needed it for school. I got her the oldest version, the one which takes AAA batteries and communicates with the outside world through a serial link. A project like this brings to mind the possibility of stuffing a Raspberry Pi Zero in the battery compartment, hooking it up to the school WiFi, using a terminal app on the calculator to communicate with the Pi and in that…
My school let you have two calculators so you could have notes on one of them and use the other. I don't really understand why, I'd rather just have paper notes. Fun things to play with though, the HP38G's we had had a nifty infrared communication thing so you could trade stuff with other people.
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#190Its a great mystery to me why American students have to buy expensive programmable calculators for course work. I vaguely remember reading that it is the result of lobbying by calculator manufacturers.
In my country even undergraduate science/engineering students dont need a programmable calculator. Some undergraduate programs like CS don't need any type of calculator.