Re: TI-92

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Re: TI-92

How can anyone NOT use the solver?!?! That is reason #1 for not buying an
82/83!
(Correct me if I'm wrong on the 83). I use the solver every 5 minutes in
both math and science. I have to say I use everything the 85 has
(including all commands).

Marco Radzinschi
marco10@juno.com

"Orthodoxy means not thinking-not needing to think. Orthodoxy is
unconsciousness." -George Orwell (From 1984)

On Thu, 25 Sep 1997 21:53:17 GMT Reinier Zwitserloot
<R.Zwitserloot@BTINTERNET.COM> writes:
>I have always implied the calc I was talking about is the 85.
>
>I once amazed my math teacher when mumbling back the exact  roots of a
>7th degree polynomial. He knows that I'm a fractal freak, but healso
>knows that I am not the walking calculator type. I then showed him the
>poly function (he has an 85 as well), and, while gazing with a new awe
>at the calculator, tried it on his own just to be sure.
>
>That's just one function.
>
>In chem class, after some simple programming, I make a little
>slideshow showing the 4 titration lab results as graph. More stares.
>And now I have one damned good excuse to play games during class :-).
>
>While I don't quite expect everyone to know how to program, it is
>quite obvious that the only functions used are:
>
>1. >Frac. after I introduced this one to a couple of people, it
>rapidly found its way in everyone custom menu.
>2. [2nd] [calc]. well, some people. not all.
>3. at least, now, [2nd] [poly]
>4. the homescreen.
>5. graphing.
>6. the program editor, to store lists of formulas and things. not to
>write programs.
>
>No one aside from myself ever thought of using the solver, for
>example. Unless I am missing something, 95% of TI-85 users really only
>uses the homescreen and simple graphing.
>
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