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

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Post by rayhaanj » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 9:03 AM UTC

tiernano wrote: post #195

dng88 wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

going direct to ARIN/RIPE/APNIC etc have some stricter rules (IIRC, in RIPE you need a company or possibly business, plus a bank account in that name). by going for somone like HostUs, they are sponsoring the account, so they need to verify you and ask questions, then setup the ASN, etc. Also, going direct will provide you with V4/V6 space allocations. They might charge a yearly fee (IIRC, its like 50 per allocation)…

I have my personal LIR with RIPE and they do allow signing up as an LIR without being a company. As an individual you need to provide proof of identity via government issued ID and pay 17% Dutch VAT.

When I signed up I got a /22 of V4 space and /29 of v6 space, although for new signups I believe there's now a wait list to get a /24 and that's it for V4.

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

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Post by ithinkso » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 9:07 AM UTC

sgt wrote: post #193

publicola1990 wrote: post #192

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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.

Why? I've done calculus and analysis in college and no one has ever used a calculator, I'm not even sure what you would need one for, can you give me an example (seriously curious)

The only time I remember needing a calculator in my entire education was some circuit theory because those Thevenins and Nortons get real ugly real fast (but even then you only need +,-,*,/)

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

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 9:20 AM UTC

tener wrote: post #184

DrSiemer wrote: post #175

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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?

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

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Post by publicola1990 » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 9:22 AM UTC

sgt wrote: post #193

publicola1990 wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Why? Calculus is primarily used and taught analytically in maths & cs courses in my country.

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

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Post by Paraesthetic » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 9:24 AM UTC

draugadrotten wrote: post #196

tener wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is having the transcript of the presentation cheating and not just being prepared?

It's because school is preparing students for life, where it would be outrageous to have written notes while presenting or speaking. What's next, someone else writing the words for you?

Whats next, paying someone in a poorer country to write your things for you while you 'work from home'

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

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Post by TedDoesntTalk » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 9:36 AM UTC

punnerud wrote: post #176

the_third_wave wrote: post #119

Last 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…

And if IT use the Cisco management console, they get the location down to 3-7m diameter of every WiFi, Bluetooth, Microwave ++ that is using the same band as WiFi. I was earlier in a startup that made an indoor navigation map, where you could get the blue dot without installing anything, by using this Cisco feature: https://use.mazemap.com

What is maze map showing me? What is this?

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

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Post by iancarroll » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 9:51 AM UTC

tiernano wrote: post #195

dng88 wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

going direct to ARIN/RIPE/APNIC etc have some stricter rules (IIRC, in RIPE you need a company or possibly business, plus a bank account in that name). by going for somone like HostUs, they are sponsoring the account, so they need to verify you and ask questions, then setup the ASN, etc. Also, going direct will provide you with V4/V6 space allocations. They might charge a yearly fee (IIRC, its like 50 per allocation)…

Yeah, AFAIK the LIR model is specific to RIPE. The ARIN team does seem to put a decent amount of work into vetting and support/etc with pleasant interactions, so I don't think the fees are too unreasonable (but maybe not the best idea as an individual).

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

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Post by TedDoesntTalk » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 9:52 AM UTC

ithinkso wrote: post #202

sgt wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But for Calculus (part of CS) you need a graphing calculator.

Why? I've done calculus and analysis in college and no one has ever used a calculator, I'm not even sure what you would need one for, can you give me an example (seriously curious) The only time I remember needing a calculator in my entire education was some circuit theory because those Thevenins and Nortons get real ugly real fast (but even then you only need +,-,*,/)

This is not calculus specific, but how did you look up logarithms? With printed tables??

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

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Post by urutau » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 10:01 AM UTC

j1elo wrote: post #140

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…

Must be a market specific model, because that one shows up for me in the .com tld but not in the regional one :-( But from there I've started digging and they have so many different models with similar appearances... Anyone knows the difference between fx-82ES and fx-82SPXII?

FX-115ES Plus-2 is the model for the USA market. For other countries the same device (but in another color) goes by FX-991ES Plus-2.

https://www.casio.com/sg/scientific-calculators/product.FX-9...

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

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Post by pellias » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 10:02 AM UTC

I can imagine if the site own who is stuck in Mars with a Casio fx-9750GII will attempt to use it to host a web page to communicate back to earth or something.