More new on Math? Please...What are we going to write about? Fun with logarithms?
<SAMPLE NEWS ITEM>
Ronnie Braun has found the equation for determining the EXACT blast radius for any atomic weapon.
R=W^2*T^4*3.89E14, where R is radius, W is weight, and T is type, where atomic bomb is 5 and Hydrogen is 48.
He was reported saying:"I came up with it one day when I was bored out of my skull in math class, since TI CALC stopped doing games i had to something! This has been my life's dream. Someone has even said I'm up for the field medal this year. What an honor!"
Anonomys person:"Wow, i've always wondered what it was.
Now I can set off nuclear devices in my city and know precisely where to put it to destroy my neighbors house and that yappy dog and have my house spared. Thanks Ronnie!"
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Or...
"3d equation discovered of how to make Nick D's head a 3d graph!(Very useful with ti gun)"(I'M JUST KIDDING, we would never do that, would we!!)
I'm sure if you were to do a comprehensive count of all math programs and all games games would have the higher count.(ESP ASM!!)
BTW:Don't make fun of my equation, it is purely hypothetical and unproven, totally random numbers, dont laugh at it, is just to show you what more math news would be like, and as with all metaphors, it IS imperfect.

More people seem to programing games than math utilities. Ticalc is known for games, where ti's site has plenty of math software for anything you want do for any calc, but virtually ZIPPO for games.

So, ti has the math progs where ti calc has the game news. TI has pretty much covered everything dealing with math in the instuction book, read it.They also have a board much like this one for math news/questions on their site. I just dont see features dealing with math unless its a super big deal(81 with 3d graphing...now that might merit a feature."It only takes 20 minutes!")
Or am I just crazy? What do you think?

--R
P.s. Please forgive any mispellings;or gramatical, errors?

While I wouldn't want ticalc.org to turn into a site all about math and forget about games, we musn't forget that the main reason people buy graphing calculators is for math and science classes. Don't forget that the heart of _ALL_ programs on any computer is math. There should be articles on things that will save you time in math and put you ahead of other students who won't take the initiative to visit sites like ticalc.org. Articles on algorithms for games, like 3D algorithms, etc., would be useful, also. Don't forget that TI calcs do math, too!

"P.s. Please forgive any mispellings;or gramatical, errors?"

Was this a joke? Because if it wasn't, then you have problems.

If it turned out not to be a joke, I will personally go over to his house and beat him to death with a book about semicolon usage.

You said that the manual pretty much covers everything about math. That's pretty funny! When I was 4 and used to go grocery shopping with my mother, she had a TI-2500 DataMath (an antique even then!). I thought that it did everything about math; it added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided!

The calculators are extensible. Math news and discussions wouldn't be as you outlined (more idiotically anti-intellectual than funny, by the way), it would discuss various tricks (like symbolic math (similar) on 82-86 using coefficient lists), major math software, potential applications, etc. There's a lot more to math than the TI calculators, DERVIVE, or even the HP 49 can do. This is why people spend from $400-2000 on software like MathCAD, Maple, Mathematica, or Matlab (shudder...)

I don't know about you, but I want to get the most out of my hard-earned $130 spent on an 89!

-Ben Kalafut

Actualy the blast raidious equation would be cool in a demented sort of way. but only if i calculated extra things like fall out and 5 lethal radaition doses for clean hydrogen bombs. of coarse field testing it would be bothersome but hey its still nice to know that if a bomb hits the neares major city if it will get you out of that boring math class. besides i don't think ti calc will drop games.

I got my calculator because it has better functions for math class. Right now I still use it for math and I'm trying to learn how to program in ASM. I usually only deal with math and science programs because I don't know how to program games in BASIC or anything besides just text in ASM.

BASIC is really easy to figure out how to do stuff in, so I'd like to see a bit more of how to program in ASM so I can easly swap the programs over to ASM.

I personally would like to see more articles on functions with the calculators. (I know I should read the manuals but...i guess i'm lazy). I just recently realized using my 89 *on my physics test* that when you have numbers with units, it'll convert it to Hz or whatever it should be instead of putting the unit/unit. Cool stuff like that would be appreciated.

oh give it up, man. You can't read the manual but you can read articles on this site? If you won't learn how to use your 89 the way you are SUPPOSED to (why would they make manuals if you didnt need them?) then send it to me. I'd love an 89 to add to my collection.

Hey man, i'm lazy as crap, and it does what i need. That's all i care about. i think i'd be cool to have some articles that are interesting about features in a calculator. Go buy ur own calc man.

Articles like that would be okay if they could expand on the manual's explanation. I'd like to know how to use the stuff already on the calcs in new ways (like the matrix engine in BASIC for a star trek game I played on a 92 once -- that was AWESOME). If anyone who could write one of these reads this post, come on!
Share the knowledge, I need the experience.

-Anubis

Math articles? Oh please, I don't really give a shit about the math articles, I download programs, and check the comment board every now and then, so THERE! I DON'T CHECK YOUR ARTICLES!!! I HAVE THE FILES ON THE TOP AND THE ARTICLES ON THE BOTTOM WHERE I NEVER LOOK AT THEM! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!

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THAT'S NOT THE ARTICLES THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT! HA HA HA HA HA!

hehehe...that was funny (well, to me)

so you don't read it for the articles...

LMAO!!!!!!

LMAO! I don't read the articles either... =P

Actually, I do when they have to do with the 89, sometimes the 85.

hehe, I do just the opposite, I ONLY check the articles. :-)

~Jonathan Taylor
"I'm not lame! YOUR lame!!"

I know I always like to know how stuff works, and how calculators work and how to use them would definitely make several good features. Heh, who wouldn't want to know?

Two comments...
1. This survey asked about articles -- which I do not want to see because I go to school to learn math, I come here to get a tiny bit of joy..

2. The subject says more features dealing with mathematics in calculators... Hell yeah. The more the better....



My thoughts.


Danny

Calculators are made for math, but it sure is fun for games. I overclocked my 89 and added a backlight. It sure does kick @$$

I bet is kicks ass to void the warrantee, drain batteries 3x as fast and totally screw up your 89's power consumption rate.

Hmm, that reminds me of the time I tried (unsuccessfully) to overclock my 86...

But anyway I like my 89 better than my old 86

How exactly did you add a backlight. I would be interested to know