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Re: Does your school/workplace have a calculator club/group?
Scooblescott  Account Info

there's not one available to me; and i wouldn't join anyway, since i don't think there would be much to do there. Maybe there would be stuff to do, and then eventually, it would run out, and we would start doing things completely unrelated, like bowling. Then, people would join just to go bowling who have no interest in calculators whatsoever.
I chose "Ticalc.org is good enough for me"

Reply to this comment    16 April 2006, 23:06 GMT


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something1990 Account Info

Unless you have the creativity of a stick, there is no possible way you can run out of ideas of things to do with a computer. I mean come on. I bet there would be a period of learning, followed by intense programming based on newly learned concepts, and the cycle will continue. Maybe every once in a while the club would enter a programming contest. Maybe the club could have the school host a website for the club where all the programs are featured. There really is no way you can run out of ideas.

Reply to this comment    17 April 2006, 22:47 GMT

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yellowPig Account Info

or you could learn a new language, or create a library in the language you already know, or search the internet for libraries that most people don't know about, or you could write programs that actually could help people and post them on the web....
you could even go into hardware.

Reply to this comment    18 April 2006, 22:34 GMT


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something1990 Account Info

The ideas are like the Energizer bunny. They never stop coming.

Reply to this comment    19 April 2006, 01:48 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info
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Yeah, group computer stuff can be even more fun than doing things on your own - like writing a game together, or having a programming contest, or a LAN party, or some kind of hacking challenge (seeing who can break into one of the other people's computers first). Each of those things can also be done many times over in different ways, so it's going to be hard to find yourselves with nothing to do. I'd give almost anything to belong to a computer club like that, but I'm homeschooled, so it would have a membership of 2 (me and my dog). ;-)

Reply to this comment    19 April 2006, 18:32 GMT

Re: Does your school/workplace have a calculator club/group?
Scooblescott  Account Info

forgot to add this to my other post-
i would place money on that one or less people say they are in one. (unless somebody is messing with the results, which more than likely happens a lot)

Reply to this comment    16 April 2006, 23:16 GMT

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Num Account Info
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Stupid middleschool where grahing calcs aren't only a requirement...
Only four (including me) people own TI graphing calcs, and only 1 (me) know ny form of assembly programming. I can't wait until highschool.

Reply to this comment    17 April 2006, 01:33 GMT

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anykey  Account Info
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No, but we have a very competitive Rubik's cube club (even nerdier!).

Reply to this comment    17 April 2006, 03:40 GMT


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Person Dude  Account Info

Words cannot express...

Reply to this comment    19 April 2006, 02:20 GMT


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anykey  Account Info
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...my pure awesomeness? You're welcome :D

Reply to this comment    19 April 2006, 04:53 GMT


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Person Dude  Account Info

I hope you are not in it! ;)

Reply to this comment    19 April 2006, 15:47 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info
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Huh? That actually sounds like it could be really fun (if I could solve those things)!

Reply to this comment    19 April 2006, 18:34 GMT

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Person Dude  Account Info

Sorry. Difference in opinion. I like figuring out Rubic's cubes, but I would not be in a club.

Reply to this comment    19 April 2006, 23:15 GMT

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yellowPig Account Info

yeah, me too.

Reply to this comment    20 April 2006, 02:35 GMT


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jesse frey  Account Info

maybe by joining the club one could figure them out. my sister used to solve her keychain one by moving the stickers.

Reply to this comment    20 April 2006, 15:27 GMT


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Person Dude  Account Info

I have one of those too!!!
Only, I get my Swill army knife and use the screw driver to pop the cubes out.

Reply to this comment    20 April 2006, 17:51 GMT


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Zeroko  Account Info
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When I was little I once disassembled a normal-sized cube to "solve" it. My dad saw me do it (to his Rubik's cube) & got really angry, so I did not play with it for several years after that. One day I bothered to read the instruction manual, & now I can actually solve them fast enough that it would take me longer to manage to disassemble & reassemble the cube (since it is hard to get the small cuboids to stay in place until it is almost together).

Reply to this comment    22 April 2006, 15:19 GMT


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anykey  Account Info
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I can solve mine in a minute and 14 seconds. Soon my time will be under a minute!

Reply to this comment    23 April 2006, 18:21 GMT

Re: Does your school/workplace have a calculator club/group?
yellowPig Account Info

We have a math team, and one of the events that we compete in is a calculator competition that's actually designed for ti calcs. But that's only for about six weeks each year, and this year, of the five people who are on the team, only 3 usually come (I'm one of them) and we just practice for the competition.
I voted that there isn't one, but I wish there was.

Reply to this comment    17 April 2006, 06:16 GMT


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something1990 Account Info

What do you do with the calculator? While we may not have that kind of club, we do have an Academic Games club. We play Equations, Language Games, and Social Studies Games. If you want some idea of how these games work, download either my AB Plus Expressions Solver program or my Multiple of K Solver program.

Reply to this comment    17 April 2006, 22:51 GMT


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yellowPig Account Info

Completely outside of school (i.e. not math team either) I write programs for any cool formula in math that I come across/anything that I think would be challenging. I only use Basic though.

Reply to this comment    17 April 2006, 23:33 GMT


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something1990 Account Info

I meant what do you do with your math team that requires a calculator.

Reply to this comment    18 April 2006, 00:45 GMT


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something1990 Account Info

I forgot to add this part to last post. -for the competition.

Reply to this comment    18 April 2006, 00:47 GMT


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yellowPig Account Info

there are 20 questions on each contest, and they're all almost impossible to do without a calc; often there's a function on the Voyage/92+/89 Titanium that makes the problem a lot easier.
For example, find the 601st term in the repeating decimal 1/59.
I can't think of examples of the top of my head for other types of problems, but there are conditional probability questions, some set theory problems, trig problems, basically anything that can be done with math below calculus, an 89 or better, and some imagination.
It makes it a lot easier if you have programs; a team without programs has basically no chance at even coming close to winning.

Reply to this comment    18 April 2006, 22:17 GMT


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something1990 Account Info

Wow that's cool. I'm assuming you have a general idea of what is to be asked beforehand. Otherwise, you would have no idea what to focus your program on and might make the wrong program. Also, that 601st term can be done easily without a calc once you figure out the cycle. It IS a repeating decimal after all.

Reply to this comment    19 April 2006, 01:51 GMT


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yellowPig Account Info

we do have a pretty good idea of what most of the problems will be like, but I do a LOT of coding during the contests; I've actually written a few "template programs" i.e. written all of the inputs, loops, if statements, et c. for a program in which you have to put an iteration into a list and look at the different terms.
Yeah, but try counting how many decimal places it takes for it to repeat for the first time! The writers of the contests make sure that they repeat after so many terms that the repeat won't show up on the screen of a Voyage. These contests are timed, after all.

Reply to this comment    19 April 2006, 06:11 GMT

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