Re: TI-89 and AP Test

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Subject: Re: TI-89 and AP Test
From: DaMaStErMiNd <damastermind@MINDLESS.COM>
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 14:21:46 -0500
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cuz not everybody has an 89! hmmm I don't know why the 89 should be banned if

the HPs are just as capable with the plethora of libs they have, and have
been allowed
for years.

Rahat Husain wrote:

> Why don't they just make the AP harder?
>
> On Thu, 24 Dec 1998 21:36:27 +0000, Peter Ammon
> <Peter_Ammon@rocketmail.com> wrote:
>
> >The College Board allows the new TI-89 on the AP Calculus AB and BC
> >tests.  The TI-89 can do definite integrals symbolically; in other
> >words, if you ask it for the integral of 1/Sqrt(1-x^2) from 0 to 1 it
> >will tell you Pi/2 instead of 1.5708...
> >
> >It was not infallible; for example, it failed to solve the integral from
> >0 to infinity of e^-(x^2)  (Sqrt(pi)/2, if you don't remember), but it
> >was still damn powerful.  Now, who's going to bother learning how to
> >integrate if the calculator will do it for them on the AP test?  I say,
> >either ban the TI-89 from the AP or lengthen the calculator-less section
> >of the test.
> >
> >Comments?
> >
> >-Peter
> >

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