20 Jun
2011
20 Jun
'11
7:27 p.m.
On 21 Jun 2011 at 2:14, Alexey Toptygin wrote:
I take it you've never used a 'graphing
calculator'? The TI-82, TI-83,
TI-85 and probably other models all do exactly what you describe, and
have been selling 1 per high school student in the USA for some time
now...
No, when I was in high school, if you brought a calculator, it
probably meant something like a Victor Comptometer.
In college, it was a slide rule, although I did know a rich kid with
a Curta. Wonder if that was the last advanced technical product to
come out of Liechtenstein...
--Chuck