Survey posted 2003-04-17 02:00 by Henrik.

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Does the category "Significant Other" include little brothers? I have to let him borrow my TI-83+ all the time <grr>.

I certainly hope not!

He is 3v1l. And he is a member of this site, even though he couldn't care less for programming or gaming on TI calculators. If you want to see him, his handle is Aviore.

Oh wait, he posted once, didn't he? Once.... lol :)

Yep, ONCE, and only ONCE if I can help it.

LOL... sibling rivalry is so much fun :)

dude, that's just SICK.

HEY! What is up with THAT poll???? They forgot the "My calculator IS my significant other!" choice!! I'm upset j/k :)

Now that is taking it a little too far, lol

No, I'm going to go out with my calculat0rz... didn't you hear?

hehe yeah, once you get them back.

I still have my TI-82 with me... and my TI-89... *sigh* still is gone. I'm going to have to kill that grand-theft-committing idiot.

Do you know who took it?

If he did, don't you think he could steal it back or something?

If I did, there would be another death to talk about.

I voted yes since I would let my significant other borrow my calculator if that were ever the case. However it is not. I can not help but notice the ever appearent trend of calculator-relationship type polls. Perhaps, I will construct colourful graphs. I also like the semi-political correctness of the poll(s), and the drastic reduction in first-post "boasting" ever since the implementation of deleting comments that are guilty of such.

Whould love come to you if let the "significant other"
use the calculator?!

Probably...
Who knows? Maybe girls dig guys who let them use their calculator...?

no.

YES

Not really, but if you help them with a lot of things they can't do...

There are a lot of girls in my Algebra class who ask me to help them (I'm the smartest one in eighth grade) in math and also use my calculator. I like girls, I just don't need them. I'm happy by myself.

I still think it's wrong for junior high school students to use graphing calculators, unless they are in super-duper-acellerated Algebra II

Actually, a graphing calc in the hands of the average Alg. I student would be useless. If a person actually knew how to work a TI in 8th grade, then, unless they're one of those morons who thinks they're going to be computer programmers when they grow up with a 2.0 GPA, will not need for algebra anyways. Only about 4 people used a TI in my algebra I class, and, except for me, only used for the 8-line display, so they could see their work.


*on-topic* As I already said, and SO I have, judging by the average girl at my school, would either be clueless about how to work a graph calc, or not need one.

No use for eighth graders? When we went through our Right-angle Trigonometry unit, I made a program to solve for the whole triangle for ALL possibiltes of combinations of information about the triangle. (BTW, my GPA is 4.0)

Personally, a GPA does not stand for how 'smart' you are. It is just a measure of how bored and/or how lazy you are.

[read my above comment on the right-angle trig program]

Without the calcultor, you can't do sines, cosines, tangents, logarithms, etc. (without a table of some sort)

Well you really don't need one till you hit Geometry but the things you mentioned above are really true. BTW what is the actually math to figure out the values of those angles if you don't use sin, cos, tan, etc?