Survey posted 2000-07-10 22:54 by Nick Disabato.

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I am 13, and I have a 81, 82, 83+, and 89. I actually need these though, because I am starting Honors Pre-Calculus this fall in 9th grade. I have had my 81 since I was 10.

<cough>nerd</cough>

If you are not a nerd, then begone with you! If you come to this site you are automatically a nerd. And HTML tags! You are the king of nerddom!

:-)

Thank you.

UH I think s/he was talking about you.(I have to be politically correct)

Yet again, if you are not a male, you do not come to this site. The only female we have was Laura Thompson (I think that's her name) and reportedly, she was killed in a horrific accident. Only nerdy males who know what HTML, C, and ASM mean(s?) come here. Stupid people who come and ask for ports of games might linger for a while, but then get bored and go somewhere else. A good survey would be asking people if they are male or female. Of course, some people would lie. But it would be interesting to find out the real results.

Chris
A nerdy male

1. Laura thompson is really a male.
2. Laura Thompson is really not real.
3. That survey has already been held.
4. I am NOT a nerd and i know what all those programming terms mean.

I believe that many people who aren't nerds know what those mean (like me).

you need all of these calculator for what reason.

Yea, once I got my 86, I've never used my 82, and my 83+ is mainly for little programs. My 86 outmatches them all, my other calcs are dead weight.

I really don't mean to sound disagreeable, but you really don't /need/ any calculator to learn mathematics, certainly not FOUR.

If you have an 83+, you don't _need_ an 81 or 82.

If you're a human being our age, you don't _need_ any calculator. They just help sometimes.

I got the ti-86 in 9th grade. It was usefull for about the first half of the year. I was able to make programs that would help make everything go quicker.

i did the same thing. only i just made 1 posthumous program. i say posthumous because it was finished after our geometry class had moved on beyond the thing it was designed to help. it's here in the archives too. (Diags - TI-86 BASIC Math Programs)

that's my version of advertising. lol.

I may not be the oldest in here, but I can make a safe bet that im the oldest active TI-BASIC Only programmer in the community with 6 Years and counting. :P

Wow, I was programming for about a month when the novelty wore off and the life's course took me away.

Maybe TI Basic sure, but, I was programming BASIC on the Atari and the Commodore 64 when I was 6....

Why is it when someone has a question about learning something about the hardware of the calculator or programming differnt things, people get really F***ing stupid and say stuff like, "why the hell would you want to do that" or "no ones going to care" and other stupid stuff like that? If it wasn't for people wanting to know stuff like that, most of our current technology would not exist. If it wasn't for slapping alittle code into my 81 every once in a great while when I get bored, my programming skills would slowly die away.

The reason is quite simple: people have absolutely no perspective. If you ask people about a lot of different things their answers are shortsighted and narrow-minded. This is a consequence with an obsession with self that precludes the exploration of deeper thought. Incidentally, where does the need for perspective end. The answer it never does. We all have a limit. Even those with great insight and understanding of lots of different situation don't have totally limitless perspective.

Although, another thing to consider is that someone asks you why you would want to do that, you must understand that they are judging your actions based upon their value system. It is undoubtable that this value system with be different--different but not superior or inferior.

In the end, we all should respect everybody's value systems. However, this is reality, and that will never happen.

It just gets old, fast. Its the same damn thing, "lets bash people because they think differently and are trying to do the best they can with the equipment they have to work with. Quite sad really.