Survey posted 2006-04-16 20:08 by Jon.

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there's not one available to me; and i wouldn't join anyway, since i don't think there would be much to do there. Maybe there would be stuff to do, and then eventually, it would run out, and we would start doing things completely unrelated, like bowling. Then, people would join just to go bowling who have no interest in calculators whatsoever.
I chose "Ticalc.org is good enough for me"

Unless you have the creativity of a stick, there is no possible way you can run out of ideas of things to do with a computer. I mean come on. I bet there would be a period of learning, followed by intense programming based on newly learned concepts, and the cycle will continue. Maybe every once in a while the club would enter a programming contest. Maybe the club could have the school host a website for the club where all the programs are featured. There really is no way you can run out of ideas.

or you could learn a new language, or create a library in the language you already know, or search the internet for libraries that most people don't know about, or you could write programs that actually could help people and post them on the web....
you could even go into hardware.

The ideas are like the Energizer bunny. They never stop coming.

Yeah, group computer stuff can be even more fun than doing things on your own - like writing a game together, or having a programming contest, or a LAN party, or some kind of hacking challenge (seeing who can break into one of the other people's computers first). Each of those things can also be done many times over in different ways, so it's going to be hard to find yourselves with nothing to do. I'd give almost anything to belong to a computer club like that, but I'm homeschooled, so it would have a membership of 2 (me and my dog). ;-)

forgot to add this to my other post-
i would place money on that one or less people say they are in one. (unless somebody is messing with the results, which more than likely happens a lot)

Stupid middleschool where grahing calcs aren't only a requirement...
Only four (including me) people own TI graphing calcs, and only 1 (me) know ny form of assembly programming. I can't wait until highschool.

No, but we have a very competitive Rubik's cube club (even nerdier!).

Words cannot express...

...my pure awesomeness? You're welcome :D

I hope you are not in it! ;)

Huh? That actually sounds like it could be really fun (if I could solve those things)!

Sorry. Difference in opinion. I like figuring out Rubic's cubes, but I would not be in a club.

yeah, me too.

maybe by joining the club one could figure them out. my sister used to solve her keychain one by moving the stickers.

I have one of those too!!!
Only, I get my Swill army knife and use the screw driver to pop the cubes out.

When I was little I once disassembled a normal-sized cube to "solve" it. My dad saw me do it (to his Rubik's cube) & got really angry, so I did not play with it for several years after that. One day I bothered to read the instruction manual, & now I can actually solve them fast enough that it would take me longer to manage to disassemble & reassemble the cube (since it is hard to get the small cuboids to stay in place until it is almost together).

I can solve mine in a minute and 14 seconds. Soon my time will be under a minute!

We have a math team, and one of the events that we compete in is a calculator competition that's actually designed for ti calcs. But that's only for about six weeks each year, and this year, of the five people who are on the team, only 3 usually come (I'm one of them) and we just practice for the competition.
I voted that there isn't one, but I wish there was.

What do you do with the calculator? While we may not have that kind of club, we do have an Academic Games club. We play Equations, Language Games, and Social Studies Games. If you want some idea of how these games work, download either my AB Plus Expressions Solver program or my Multiple of K Solver program.

Completely outside of school (i.e. not math team either) I write programs for any cool formula in math that I come across/anything that I think would be challenging. I only use Basic though.

I meant what do you do with your math team that requires a calculator.

I forgot to add this part to last post. -for the competition.

there are 20 questions on each contest, and they're all almost impossible to do without a calc; often there's a function on the Voyage/92+/89 Titanium that makes the problem a lot easier.
For example, find the 601st term in the repeating decimal 1/59.
I can't think of examples of the top of my head for other types of problems, but there are conditional probability questions, some set theory problems, trig problems, basically anything that can be done with math below calculus, an 89 or better, and some imagination.
It makes it a lot easier if you have programs; a team without programs has basically no chance at even coming close to winning.

Wow that's cool. I'm assuming you have a general idea of what is to be asked beforehand. Otherwise, you would have no idea what to focus your program on and might make the wrong program. Also, that 601st term can be done easily without a calc once you figure out the cycle. It IS a repeating decimal after all.

we do have a pretty good idea of what most of the problems will be like, but I do a LOT of coding during the contests; I've actually written a few "template programs" i.e. written all of the inputs, loops, if statements, et c. for a program in which you have to put an iteration into a list and look at the different terms.
Yeah, but try counting how many decimal places it takes for it to repeat for the first time! The writers of the contests make sure that they repeat after so many terms that the repeat won't show up on the screen of a Voyage. These contests are timed, after all.