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Why? I've done calculus and analysis in college and no one has ever used a calculator, I'm not even sure what you would need one for, can you give me an example
by ithinkso 5y ago
Why? I've done calculus and analysis in college and no one has ever used a calculator, I'm not even sure what you would need one for, can you give me an example (seriously curious)
The only time I remember needing a calculator in my entire education was some circuit theory because those Thevenins and Nortons get real ugly real fast (but even then you only need +,-,*,/)
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoThis is not calculus specific, but how did you look up logarithms? With printed tables??
- ithinkso 5y agoThe same way as pi, e and other constants, log(17) is just that. I never had to convert them to some decimal approximation in calculus classes Edit: Ok, I remember now there was a statistics exam when we had something like Student's t-distribution tabulated on the exam sheet but I had to scrape my brain to find an example, it does happen though
- TedDoesntTalk 5y ago> The only time I remember needing a calculator in my entire education I’m not asking about calculus classes. You specifically said “my entire education” So you never needed to convert log(17) to decimal in your entire education? Or you just converted it by hand like the Neanderthals did?
- publicola1990 5y agoYou don't need a 100+£ programmable calculator for calculating log(17).
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoHe didn't mention 100+£ or any price. He said he never used a calculator in college -- even a 5£ calculator.
- ithinkso 5y agoNot on a piece of paper, no. Of course I had to at some point but in those instances I was at a computer anyway so I just used excel/python/matlab what have you, not a calculator like a Neanderthal