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From: s872607@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (George Tzanatos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Stupid HP48 tricks
Message-ID: <1991May23.011327.10900@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 23 May 91 01:13:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: minyos.1991May23.011327.10900
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acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU) writes:

>In article <28319e55:3105.1comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP> akcs.kevin@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Kevin Jessup) writes:
>]I wish college professors would come out of the dark ages and realize
>]that a calculator is not a crutch but a tool.

>well, i'd tend to disagree. while many of you would argue that the
>calculator should be used for mundane tasks like the lower-level math
>stuff, i'm quite glad i'm forced not to use a calculator at all in my
>math classes. then again, my highest math class is calc III with

In maths, you might enjoy repeating the same mundane task 100 times. I'm doing
an electronics eng course, and I over the last 3 years, I've had to do enough
matrices to last me a lifetime - How many times do you have to do a simultaneous
equation solution using matrices to learn it? The object of most excercises is
to learn what the circuit is doing, not how to learn cramer's rule.

Sure the students at that time only used calculators - but at that time, having
a simple calc was equivalent to owning a HP48 now.

Have a day :)