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Man, I wish I had this (and cellphones) in high school. Would have made cheating so much easier!
by mkoryak 12y ago
Man, I wish I had this (and cellphones) in high school. Would have made cheating so much easier!
- LeoPanthera 12y agoWhen I was at school I had one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3 And got in trouble for writing programs in OPL to solve math problems. I reckon I deserved extra credit for initiative. The experience of learning to program has certainly turned out to be ultimately more useful than learning to do math without a calculator. (Not that I think that learning to do math without a calculator is useless, mind you.) OPL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Programming_Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Programming_Language
- zentiggr 12y agoWrote a very simple genetic algorithm engine in OPL... my fitness function was just to optimize toward a specific 32-bit pattern. But I got familiar with the technique, along with quite a few other explorations. Then I dropped it on a steel deck, broke a hinge and the power lines from the battery case. Never have pulled it apart to rebuild, but it's in my closet still, 15 years later :)
- deskpro 12y agoHaha, I had the exact same experience. Although I'm not sure the dice cricket game I also wrote in maths class counted :)
- hyperbovine 12y agoOther than that, what's the use? I'm struggling to think of any other time in my life where I have seen nicely typeset equations ending in "= ?"...