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Re: Calculators?
Sweet thread.
I had a TI-83 all through high school and freshman year of college. Really easy to use and it never breaks no matter how many times I drop it (so far that is).
Over the summer, my roommate recommended buying a TI-89 (titanium) for calc 3, and I must say, it is a great machine. Our calc 3 professor lets us use them on tests, although just putting an answer your 89 spit out without showing any work wont get you many points. I like how it can do integration and actually show you the integral itself (with the symbol and lower and upper limits) rather than the integral listed as a calculator operation followed by the constraints. Plus the cross product function comes in really handy, as does the ability to see the exact answer and an approximate one.
I still use my TI-83 for stuff outside of school, mostly when I'm designing or building things that dont require calculus.
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