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Its crazy that calculators have essentially been immune to the turbulence of the mobile industry of the past several years.
by hayksaakian 14y ago
Its crazy that calculators have essentially been immune to the turbulence of the mobile industry of the past several years.
- Jach 14y agoThe chief reason (at least in the US) is probably due to standardized testing having a white-list of allowed calculators. Your phone can emulate the TI-89 just fine (and run other tools like LAPACK, PARI, Octave, etc.) but good luck getting it approved for a test.
- hayksaakian 14y agoJust goes to show that the US government is not the only organization capable of crippling progress.
- waivej 14y agoI was chatting with my dad about this today. (He teaches classes that use graphing calculators.). It's cheap to buy a calculator emulator app so they must allow it soon. Though students sometimes use the camera and email to cheat.