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

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Post by willyt »

ithinkso wrote: post #212
tempodox wrote: post #185

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's interesting and somewhat surprising to me. Do they use slide rules and/or function value tables printed on paper?

Not sure about Japan but in Poland the variables in problems are either symbolic and you solve it symbolically, or if they are given as values then they are usually chosen just right to not make arithmetic much of a bother (that actually results in a fun 'sanity check' that if you start getting something waaay crazier than 'normal' you double check if you didn't screw something up somewhere along the way or if there…

Exactly, same in the UK. So a typical first question in the maths exam we take at age 14/15 might be ‘Factorise the quadratic x²+5x+6’. No calculator needed.

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Post by Spare_account »

herbst wrote: post #213
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…

I cheatet so much with my TI. In every class we were allowed to use a calculator I would literally code everything relevant for the test into this small thingy. I still think I better memorized some of the things as my class mates. Also I loved how it doesn't really communicate except with a cable no one had. So nobody expected me to share my 'cheats'

You accidentally prepared for the test while thinking that you were cheating.

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

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Post by thewakalix »

ben_w wrote: post #220
tener wrote: post #184

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

In the same way that my ability to use WolframAlpha to answer physics questions in no way qualifies me to say “black holes don’t sound like they could work, surely the way the in-falling particles get an increasingly well defined velocity as they reach the event horizon causes their position to become increasingly undefined until they are almost certainly nowhere near the black hole?”, which is the kind of thing I te…

That’s interesting but I don’t understand how it’s at all similar.

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

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Post by herbst »

Spare_account wrote: post #222
herbst wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I cheatet so much with my TI. In every class we were allowed to use a calculator I would literally code everything relevant for the test into this small thingy. I still think I better memorized some of the things as my class mates. Also I loved how it doesn't really communicate except with a cable no one had. So nobody expected me to share my 'cheats'

You accidentally prepared for the test while thinking that you were cheating.

I did both I guess. And because I could not share it, teachers never bothered.

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

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Post by ben_w »

thewakalix wrote: post #223
ben_w wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the same way that my ability to use WolframAlpha to answer physics questions in no way qualifies me to say “black holes don’t sound like they could work, surely the way the in-falling particles get an increasingly well defined velocity as they reach the event horizon causes their position to become increasingly undefined until they are almost certainly nowhere near the black hole?”, which is the kind of thing I te…

That’s interesting but I don’t understand how it’s at all similar.

With sufficient preparation I could pass any physics test without actually understanding physics. A Chinese room within the mind, if you prefer a philosophy reference.

Thinking about it, I really should’ve gone with that analogy first — it keeps this in the category of languages.

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

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Post by busymom0 »

Someone wrote: post #219
busymom0 wrote: post #171

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No I am not. Users who require accessibility have it setup in their MacOS/Windows settings. It's a global setting for them. It's not website specific.

Users may access the site through a third-party device that they cannot configure, for example in a kiosk setting.

I mean we are talking about a demo project on hosting a tiny site on a calculator. Don't think anyone is trying to access it from a kiosk.

But if your comment is a general opinion of websites in general, then yea, I see what you mean.

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

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Post by fomine3 »

ithinkso wrote: post #212
tempodox wrote: post #185

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's interesting and somewhat surprising to me. Do they use slide rules and/or function value tables printed on paper?

Not sure about Japan but in Poland the variables in problems are either symbolic and you solve it symbolically, or if they are given as values then they are usually chosen just right to not make arithmetic much of a bother (that actually results in a fun 'sanity check' that if you start getting something waaay crazier than 'normal' you double check if you didn't screw something up somewhere along the way or if there…

Almost same as Japan. If we need calculation (like for some physics exam), we use column method on paper.

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

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Post by tempodox »

ithinkso wrote: post #212
tempodox wrote: post #185

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's interesting and somewhat surprising to me. Do they use slide rules and/or function value tables printed on paper?

Not sure about Japan but in Poland the variables in problems are either symbolic and you solve it symbolically, or if they are given as values then they are usually chosen just right to not make arithmetic much of a bother (that actually results in a fun 'sanity check' that if you start getting something waaay crazier than 'normal' you double check if you didn't screw something up somewhere along the way or if there…

That makes sense. If you used a calculator's computer algebra system (CAS) for the symbolic manipulation, it would certainly count as cheating.

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Post by UncleSlacky »

stjohnswarts wrote: post #156
fouc wrote: post #110

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

Because now they're just clusters. Lots of people make hobby ones out of rpi's to tinker with

Those are Brambles: https://elinux.org/Bramble

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

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Post by Spare_account »

herbst wrote: post #224
Spare_account wrote: post #222

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You accidentally prepared for the test while thinking that you were cheating.

I did both I guess. And because I could not share it, teachers never bothered.

This gives me food for thought. I have young children, all under 10. The challenge is learning how to inspire them; you found a crutch that made learning less of a chore: converting the syllabus into chunks of code.

I can already see that the my two eldest will both need very different answers, but if I can figure out what theirs is, I can hopefully help them focus where my childhood mind would wander during study sessions.

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