Oh man! After dropping my calculator on hard floors hundreds of times I thought that it was indestructable! I need to make a note to keep all calcs away from Joey :-)

Speaking of indestructible calculators, my math teacher told me last semester that he had attended a "math conference" hosted by TI. It was to demonstrate the capabilities of the 89, and one of the things they did was THROW IT AGAINST A WALL TO SHOW HOW DURABLE IT WAS (the insanity). It turned out that it broke...the demonstration was a failure, but they RETRIED (oh, Lord, help us all). This time however, it worked...The calculator was still operable. Well...that's my two cents for the day...

NO! Not a perfectly good working 89! Oh the inhumaninty!!!

But is is pretty funny that ie broke, and they said that it would not. You should have dove and saved it, that is what I would have done.

-W-

Oh me too, I couldn't watch that. That would be horrible. Especially if it they used somebody else's TI-89.

*dives, time slows down... catches TI-89*

*dodges bullets from HP and Casio in matrix-style*

lol. That's a good idea for a game... "HP Bullet Dodge"

"HP has send evil warriors to destroy your TI-89. You must manuever it to safety... Be careful, there are also Casio employees trying to ambush you... There is no one you can trust... Except your TI-89 and your Voyage 200... Go... And remember... If you play this game on a platform not made by TI, it WILL explode..."

LOL..that would be a good game...you should see my IM away message: "I have been captured by an army of evil HP49G graphing calculators".

so if i was to run that program with an emulator my pc would explode? wait i got a TI-4200 graphics card im safe

Well, if you were running a computer with a TI-emulator and nothing on the computer was from TI... well, let's just say stand back if you don't want to get hurt to much.

the GeForce4 TI4200 graphics card is from Nvidia, not TI

Okay. I'll integrate that into the game, so your computer will explode if you play the updated version.

oh thought that it was made by TI, or atleast SOME part of it

Two problems with that...1) I wasn't there, and thus couldn't save it...2) TI gave no warning that they were going to do it...they just did it...

Yes, it is too bad that a perfectly good calc got destroyed. :-(
Yes, it is also funny that it broke when they wanted to prove the strength. I would have been laughing...

Now we need to test a TI-83/Plus/SE and a TI-86. I wonder how they'll fare.

I saw my 12th Grade Biology teacher destroy a 83+...well she tried to at least. All she ended up doing was breaking the LCD screen. It was quite hilarious.

We were making a movie and the script called that she do so. Don't worry it wasn't a functioning 83+.

What was wrong with it? That's kind of funny... TI calculators are pretty hard to break. But I wouldn't risk it by throwing it up against a wall or anything.

Actually, they're pretty much indestructable. The only way you could ever even hurt it is if you dropped in on a weak point in the side, then the LCD screen would crack.

I've dropped mine plenty of times and I haven't noticed the slightest change in performance-even that might not work...I think to really destroy one of these things you have to either burn it or throw it REALLY hard against something, or step on it REALLY hard, or drive something sharp into it with a lot of force... I won't go on-it's too painful to think about-an innocent calculator losing its life for no reason. :-(

A friend dropped a calculator once and it broke (TI-82). I wasn't there, I just heard about it. Poor calc. LOL

"Step on it REALLY hard."

It probably wouldn't break if a sumo wrestler stood on it. The weight would be distributed evenly. And away from weak points. Try this: jump on your calculator. I doubt it will break.

Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any broken TI calculators resulting from this post. Scratch that, I'm not responsible for any broken calculators, period.

Very true-you would probably have to get a sumo wrestler to stand on it with one foot, wearing a shoe with a sharp point, and even then, it might survive.

My friend dropped his TI 89 enough, it screwed up the com port....well TI e-mailed him and said that after he sent it in (luckily still in warranty)

Yeah, I get pretty mad whenever somebody's calculator breaks in class, and 5 people invariably gasp and go, "you could've broken it!" One time, I dropped mine like 5 times in a row from desk high just to prove that it wouldn't break. Though, it would really suck if it actually did break, like that 89.

Unless you try to disassemble it.

timgisme (a friend of mine on this site) and I once tried to disassemble his sister's TI-83 (his intent was to switch the buttons around to confuse her), and when he tried to seperate the two plastic shells that make up the frame of the 83 with a screwdriver, he accidently cracked the screen! because he was applying pressure on the upper part of one of the seams, the screwdriver slipped in and broke the glass part of the screen, leaving a horizontal crack in the glass that went through most of the display area (and it left a very nasty black smudge that covered about 90% of the screen area). Fortunately, some of the 8x16 cells still operated (and, fortunately, his sister was no longer using that calculator) :)

Actually, I dropped my 83+ Silver out of a bus window. The bus wasn't moving. The amazing thing was that the RAM didn't even clear. My 83+ would clear its RAM if you set it down too hard. Silly calculator...

There's probably a loose connection to the batteries or something.

A kid at my school messed with another kid's 83+, screwing with all the modes and making everything look funky. When the calc's owner saw it, he got frustrated trying to fix it and threw it against the wall and broke it. So his mom bought him an 83+SE.

Wow... that kid was... stupid. LOL

Or REALLY REALLY smart...a free calc!!!

That was his parent's fault. LOL Most parents would say "tough luck." If he was truly smart, he would have made it look like it was broken (play around with some wires on the inside or something). Then, have her mom buy a new one. THEN, fix it. Now you have TWO calcs!

THAT'S CRUEL!!! I COULD UNDERSTAND A CHEAP LITTLE 4 FUNCTION CALCULATOR BUT A PERFECTLY GOOD GRAPHING CALCULATOR!!! I WILL PROTEST!!! TI-83 PLUS/PLUS SE IS THE BEST!!!

Oh, I hope it at least had the batteries removed.

It is cruel...we should report it to the SPCC (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Calculators).

Protection of Cruelty to Calculators? Doesn't that mean you protect the people that do heinous acts to innocent integraters?

It's Prevention, not Protection, of Cruelty to Calculators.

Right, that's what I said-"Prevention".

Yeah, I took the batteries out first... that's why there's the room to put the thermite in.

Yeah. If the batteries were removed, the calculator could not feel the pain.

What about the poor Z80? or the AMD Flash memory? :-(

TI81s don't have flash memory

Sorry-thought you were talking about the 83+ for some reason....

*hugs 86* You're not having my 86!!!! It's the best Z80 calc TI makes!!!! (OK, no anti-86-menu discussions please) Or my 83+!!! *hugs that one too*

No arguments...you said best *Z80* calc. I will not argue that, but I WILL say it is by FAR worse than the 89 ;)

LOL! I would never do that... I would be so sad if it actually did break. That's not too smart... throwing a calculator against the wall. How hard?

Let me put it this way...they didn't LOB it...(the inhumanity)

I have a feeling they will be mobbed by the Calculator's Rights Activists.

Or the CIA (Calculator Inhumanity Activists)

Here's a variation of that joke I told...this one's a story:

- Weapons of Math Instruction -

At New York's Kennedy airport today, an individual later discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a protractor, a T-square, a slide rule, and a calculator.

At a morning press conference, Attorney general John Ashcroft said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-gebra movement. The man is being charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.

"Al-gebra is a fearsome cult," Ashcroft said. "They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a search for absolute value. They use secret code names like x and y and refer to themselves as unknowns, but we have determined they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, there are 3 sides to every triangle," Ashcroft declared.

When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes. I am gratified that our government has given us a sine that it is intent on protracting us from these math-dogs who are willing to dis-integrate us with calculus disregard. Murky statisticians love to inflict plane on every sphere of influence," the President said, adding: "Under the circumferences, we must differentiate their root, make our point, and draw the line."

(continued in next post)

President Bush warned, "These weapons of math instruction have the potential to decimal everything in their math on a scalene never before seen unless we become exponents of a Higher Power and begin to factor-in random facts of vertex."

Attorney General Ashcroft said, "As our Great Leader would say, read my ellipse. Here is one principle he is uncertainty of: though they continue to multiply, their days are numbered as the hypotenuse tightens around their necks."

I think I've dropped my calc on hard concrete...oh...maybe int(10pi) times, but it doesn't seem to have suffered any harm!

31. Yes! I WIN!! (although I almost said "31!" which would have been an extremely wrong answer)

Yeah, I made that mistake once. Fortunately, I said 0!, which was still 0.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but 0! is 1 by definition.
http://www.zero-factor ial.com/whatis.html
(yes, it's a real site.)

That's strange and makes no sense...I guess it's like x^0=1.

Did you read the site? It explains it pretty well...

Yes it is. Try it on your calculator.

also, if 0! weren't 1, then e would equal 1.718281828459...

1/0! + 1/1! + 1/2! + 1/3! ... (that's right, isn't it?)

1/0! + 1/1! + 1/2! + 1/3! ... (that's right, isn't it?)

You're right on the sequence, but if 0!=0 like you were proposing, then you'd have 1/0 = undefined, so e wouldn't exist, and the universe would collapse in upon itself.

> and the universe would collapse in upon itself.

That would suck.

To say the least.

Almost indestructable-mine was run over by a car (and still worked).

that just proves solid state stuff is REALLY durable i was reading my Maxamum PC magsene and they dropped USB keys off a realley high place, all but one worked after that, they tested another on where they froze them in an ice block, once all the water was out they worked! ran em over by a car all of em still worked

That's pretty impressive, seeing how flimsy those things look...

Yeah, but they all failed the 'Washing Machine' test.

I dropped mine from the second story of our gym (about 30 ft). The cover cracked a bit but it still works fine.

So the wheels actually rolled over it? Actually, I'm not that surprised...they're very durable.

Yes. The wheels actually rolled over it.