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Its 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.
Its 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.
They are not expensive: https://www.amazon.com/Casio-fx-9750GII-Graphing-Calculator-...
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They are not expensive: https://www.amazon.com/Casio-fx-9750GII-Graphing-Calculator-...
More than the quantum of the expense, I am questioning the need. Couple of hundred dollars on an unnecessary expense is still wastage.
Notice: this is written in fairly nicely-written C, not ASM with demoscene level micro-optimizations, like you might expect. Goes to show how much you can get out of hardware just by writing code sensibly in a native language (and native libs/tools, of course).
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I walked through doing this with my AS (AS398328) in the US (ARIN), both for fun and for security research. Happy to chat with anyone who wants to go through the process, it was probably $1-2k in total for ARIN fees to get the AS and v4/v6 space. Real transit is a lot worse though.
1-2k is a bit tough for testing the water. But above there is another $50 one. One wonder what is the difference as $50 is very manageable!
[EDIT] bit more on the RIPE fees: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/payment/ripe...
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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?
Notice: this is written in fairly nicely-written C, not ASM with demoscene level micro-optimizations, like you might expect. Goes to show how much you can get out of hardware just by writing code sensibly in a native language (and native libs/tools, of course).
> Goes to show how much you can get out of hardware just by writing code sensibly in a native language (and native libs/tools, of course). Personally, I find this a far less impressive demo of the SuperH SH-4 CPU than, say, Doom running on a graphical calculator. A http server (not https) simply opens sockets, writes a string, and closes the socket, a task which is usually purely I/O bound. Implement something basic…
You can buy some niche boards[0] with SH-4, and I assure you, they can run Debian and they do SSL just fine.
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More than the quantum of the expense, I am questioning the need. Couple of hundred dollars on an unnecessary expense is still wastage.
But for Calculus (part of CS) you need a graphing calculator.
In Swedish engineering schools, graphing calculators are banned from exams in almost all subject.