Comments on: Wish I had this at school http://community.plus.net/blog/2007/07/30/wish-i-had-this-at-school/ News and Updates on the Community. Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:32:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: mikeb http://community.plus.net/blog/2007/07/30/wish-i-had-this-at-school/#comment-718 mikeb Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:21:50 +0000 http://community.plus.net/blog/2007/07/30/wish-i-had-this-at-school/#comment-718 Oh dear .. that was just the first line so what happened to the rest of the comment ? Answers on a postcard but in the meantime, if at first you don't succeed try again - and then give up ! > All I had was lined paper and a casio calculator that > drew pretty graphs (now I am showing my age!). Hmmm, guess that means you don't remember having no choice but to use slide rules and log tables then ... or even the arrival of HP and Sinclair calculators using reverse polish notation - which were firmly banned for everything except posing with outside of class !! ... shuffles off with the aid of a convenient Zimmer frame ;-) Oh dear .. that was just the first line so what happened to the rest of the comment ? Answers on a postcard but in the meantime, if at first you don't succeed try again - and then give up !

> All I had was lined paper and a casio calculator that
> drew pretty graphs (now I am showing my age!).

Hmmm, guess that means you don't remember having no choice but to use slide rules and log tables then ... or even the arrival of HP and Sinclair calculators using reverse polish notation - which were firmly banned for everything except posing with outside of class !!

... shuffles off with the aid of a convenient Zimmer frame ;-)

]]> By: mikeb http://community.plus.net/blog/2007/07/30/wish-i-had-this-at-school/#comment-717 mikeb Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:52:10 +0000 http://community.plus.net/blog/2007/07/30/wish-i-had-this-at-school/#comment-717 >All I had was lined paper and a casio calculator that drew >All I had was lined paper and a casio calculator that drew

]]> By: Be3G http://community.plus.net/blog/2007/07/30/wish-i-had-this-at-school/#comment-716 Be3G Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:28:12 +0000 http://community.plus.net/blog/2007/07/30/wish-i-had-this-at-school/#comment-716 These days you're not even allowed to use graphing calculators in a maths A-level - they have to be scientific only. Which is annoying because graphing calculators are <i>so</i> much more intuitive... although I can see the reason why they've banned them (as they can store equations etc.). These days you're not even allowed to use graphing calculators in a maths A-level - they have to be scientific only. Which is annoying because graphing calculators are so much more intuitive... although I can see the reason why they've banned them (as they can store equations etc.).

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