Re: HP48 vs TI-92
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Lamari, Matthew wrote:
>
> Darrel Wilson wrote:
> > > The thing that kills it for me is you can't use it on any tests! QWERTY
> > keyboard. If they allowed those, I'd take a pentium 150 laptop with Maple,
> > Mathematica, Derive, Excel, Lotus, a programming language (for those
> > annoying problems you know how to solve, but not quickly...thus a computer)
> > and whatever other stuff I could think of! I'd save the money to get a
> > TI-92 along with my HP-48GX if it didn't have that darn
> > keyboard....Regards,
> >
> > darrel_wilson@bendnet.com
>
> When I was at university (last year) in OZ, you had to write down the
> make and model of your calculator, and NOTHING PROGRAMMABLE was
> allowed. I heard that this year they were a bit more lax on this; but
> that HP48 with its big screen would, upon a glance, stand out. I heard
> this was getting lax as their list of valid calculators was being
> ignored as it was 10 years out of date; but I'm sure someone would
> recognize the Ferrarri and the Lamborghini of pocketsized engineering
> hardware.
>
> I am surprised as people here are allowed to take programmable
> calculators into tests, as anything with RAM I could rack up with so
> much info that passing would be impossible!!
^^^^^^^^
OOPS!! SORRY!! NOT PASSING - ml.
>
> Matthew "My other calculator is a piece of s__t too" Lamari
Matthew "My calculator would need to have a sentence sensibility
checker" Lamari
>
> Comments here are my own, not my company's.
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