To be honest, I think there is a second and PI function on my HP-48 and that is what I use most of the time :-)

 

i got a TI-86 and i can never remember where the pi key is. so i usually just do the 3.14
and its just geometry- how accurate do you need to be?

 

Not much if you are designing roads......

 

I got a TI-89 and i nominate it for the most bad *** calulator ever made. Everything we do in calculus, the 89 can do without a problem and it can solve pretty much any equation.. And when you do equations that have PI in them, it doesn't convert the PI to a number like 3.14, it leaves it at pi. Its kind of a PITA when you want answers that have actual numbers cause u gotta press a diffrent key. And the differential equations we are doing are super simple.

 

Yeah, this guy at my highschool knew it all the way to the 340th decimal. It was his favorite #. He loved it so much he got the symbol tattoed on his arm when he turned 18. It's his only tattoo to this day and he had it done in 2000. He went to Stanford and now he's a professional gambler.

The TI-89 is the sweetest calculator ever invented. All I ever used it for was to play Phoenix and Tetris. Blackmaling and bribing got me through highschool math

 

if i could afforda TI-89 id be a very very happy little boy.

unfortunately i cant.

sadness

isnt the TI-89 capable of taking say...sin(45)...answer being .707 something...and putting it into square root of 2 over 2? or cos(30) and giving the answer as square root of three over two?

 

Ok, 5 secs to load, ridiculous amount of numbers.

Oh and Nail, I have a 89 that I don't use anymore. Make me an offer. Might take me a bit to find the book that came with it.

 

I love math! And I'm a graphic designer! Seriously... sort of... once I took calculus as an elective when I was a freshman. That was definitely not part of the curriculum. And I took two quarters of graduate statistics (but that was required).

Anyone remember this night that I was up until 3:30 AM for no reason? I was doing some division on some scrap paper, and evidently I drew this.







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edit because the pic didn't work the first time

 

11 x 2... hmmm