Well everything in Florida is in the 80's: ages, temperatures, and IQ's. I think they're just using the calculators as scapegoats. Or the officals are too old (80's) to use accurate calculators. In all seriousness, everybody makes mistakes and if the students didnt notice that 3^3 doesnt equal 81, then they deserve what they get...

>Well everything in Florida is in the 80's: ages, temperatures, and IQ's.

This is the funniest thing I've ever seen on ticalc.org.

ha ha ha. kiss my sunburnt ass

Again, 3 * 3 * 3 is a pretty bad example. Try 1.25 * 31 * 27. You might not notice if you get an answer that's 1.25 times what it should be.

And as for the 80's thing... While it is somewhat humorous, you should know there are exceptions. I'm nowhere near 80, my IQ is well above 80, and it's been (gasp) in the 70's and 60's lately. : )

i don't know what you're talking about... i'm 16 years old, my IQ is 151, and today's temperature was 70.
its really funny tho... since the average of those three numbers is 79.

however anyone not smart enough to see the errors does deserve to fail...

Judging from your website, your IQ is well below 80.

If you don't know what I was talking about then you are obviously lying about your I.Q. Anyone with an I.Q. higher than that of Funcoland employee would know that I was joking. Its a proven fact that people who can detect sarcasm easily are brighter than those who take a while. (It really makes me wonder about those of you that listed you age and the temperature, I guess I was right about the I.Q. part after all...)

(No offense Funcoland employee's, your acne will clear up, someday...)

That's just like those Floridians... state standardized Casios.

Although this is quite humorous and intresting, may i remind you that this is a TI web site, and this just might be a filler for the recent lack of news. For the last week, the only really good news is BomberBoy 1.0, and the only other article about calcsys source code is not very useful to the general TI community.

Please prove me wrong

Ah, challenge accepted! You said that this is a TI site, which is actually incorrect. This is a site that is not affiliated with Texas Instruments in any way. It only focuses on TI's line of graphing calculators, not all their products... Oh? That's not what you meant by "prove me wrong?" Nevermind, then...
-UM

If we were really starving of a lack of news, you wouldn't have seen three (four?) other news items posted in the past two days.
So there! :)

--BlueCalx

What do you mean by "lack of news"? In case you forgot, let me go over the recent news for you:

1) BomberBoy:

relevant to anyone who has an 89 (does it work on 92+ too?)

2) Calcsys Source Code:

relevant to anyone with an 83+ cause they can use it

to anyone with an 83+ or 89 because it's flashapp programming

good for normal 83 programmers to know too, even though they can't do apps

and relevant to anyone with any calculator who programs in ASM, cause it's an example of really good code.

3) Ticalc.org breaking 100,000,000 (did I make that big enough?) requests:

Doesn't matter what calculator you have, still cool.

4) Diamonds for the 86:

Duh, relevant if you have an 86

So let me ask you... which calculator do you have? An 81?

- Jeff

Don't forget the ever-overlooked 80 and 73.
<sarcasm> We're just abuzz with 73 news this month! </sarcasm>

--BlueCalx

Hey now.
Since I started running the archives, I've added more than 2000 files. 2 of them were for the 73. So THERE!
--
Phil

My user ID is lower than your user ID.
:)

--BlueCalx

My user ID is higher but who cares?. It's not like it's equal to the IQ or something.

I think the people with LOWER user ids are superior in this case. Mine would be in the forties.

Just like ICQ UIN's :)
Anything under 30 is current/former ticalc.org staff save Eric and Corey.
Anything above about 36 are users that registered when ticalc3 came out. 140 or so is the cutoff for people who visited and registered an account the first day.

Oh, and the first 60 digits of pi are... :)

--BlueCalx

I feel bad for the 73

You tell em' Jeff!

My Physics teacher confiscated my ti86 (again) and gave me this really crappy Casio. It took 5 minutes 23 seconds (I timed it) to do 69! and still got it wrong.

DOWN WITH CASIOS!

Ciaran

Heh. And we get pissed when it takes the 89 2 seconds to do 100!.

- Jeff

see, you gotta be stealthy about playing games during class (if that's why he took it); I only play after the lesson is done (I also got my math teacher hooked on ztetris, she almost let me put it on her special 83, the one that is hooked up to the over-head :P, and also put it on her 85, too)

my physics teacher gets and plays games with us on his 86. he is totally cool with using calculators.

rob

I am. It's when other people borrow it it gets confiscated. Mind you, I do have a reputation for playing games. In the prelims I finished the Credit maths paper (about 2 hours) in ten minutes and then played peaworm. What makes it really bad is that I got full marks and no-one else got over 63%.

Ciaran

Marks? prelim? credit math paper?

i dont understand this. Must not be from america.

rob

Scotland. Credit is the hardest paper, dead easy anyway I reckon. Stupid system.