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I need oslauncher cas before the SAT test!
« on: January 27, 2012, 07:36:30 pm »
Tommorow morning, i am taking the sat test. I need cas for my nspire, or else I will not be able to solve all of the problems in the time frame set!
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Re: I need oslauncher cas before the SAT test!
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2012, 08:02:59 pm »
No you don't. Each problem is solvable in the amount of time given if you know what you're doing, and if you study, you can. Also, if the proctor makes you enable Press-To-Test mode, it won't even matter because all of the extra features will be disabled.
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Re: I need oslauncher cas before the SAT test!
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2012, 08:32:26 pm »
You need to be patient about such software. Be realistic: Those softwares updates requires memory areas and other things to be changed and found to work at all and can take months to be realized. You can't just beg for an update tomorrow and expect the software to appear magically in an post attachment below your request.
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Re: I need oslauncher cas before the SAT test!
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2012, 08:49:18 pm »
If u need an nspire cas tomorrow, :w00t: the solution is to go buy an nspire cas tonight.
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Re: I need oslauncher cas before the SAT test!
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2012, 08:51:00 pm »
It's not like my parents have unlimited money. I'm not old enough to have a credit or debit card you know.
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Re: I need oslauncher cas before the SAT test!
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2012, 09:07:58 pm »
As Reo said though, I think you should try to do an effort to be able to do your work without the CAS. You are at school to learn, after all, right? Not have the calc do everything for you? In hi school when I was 12-13, we were not even allowed to use a calculator at all during tests and in physics shortly before my graduation year we were not even allowed to use graphing calcs. Otherwise in a few years they might decide to make you do a test without a calc or with very limited functions and it will all backfire at you.
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Re: I need oslauncher cas before the SAT test!
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2012, 09:14:35 pm »
All problem in the SAT should be able to be solved without a calc, though it does help. In fact, many of the problems are not the type that can be solved with a calculator. The SAT is a reasoning test. I find that if you know most properties of algebra, you should be fine.
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Re: I need oslauncher cas before the SAT test!
« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2012, 09:15:37 pm »
Yeah, at college where I live, graphing calcs aren't even allowed. If they are, most people will use TI-82 and 83+ calcs. We have to learn how to calculate matrixes, limits, derivatives and all those stuff the Nspire CAS can do by hand. Kinda hard, I agree, but it's doable.
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Re: I need oslauncher cas before the SAT test!
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2012, 11:07:12 am »
Quote from: njaddison on January 27, 2012, 07:36:30 pm
Tommorow morning, i am taking the sat test. I need cas for my nspire, or else I will not be able to solve all of the problems in the time frame set!

I know you are fairly new here, but you really need to consider some of the requests you make of people before you post. Many of your requests have been pushy, and very farfetched or implausible. Someone isn't going to just jump on pushing an OS launcher release out for you personally just because you feel you need it today. These things take time, and in this case the program in question may not ever see a public release simply due to legality issues. This type of behavior is not welcome here, and you can consider this a warning.

In regards to the test; If you feel you need a calculator with a CAS you have a couple of options that were open to you:

1.)Buy a model that has one.
2.)Borrow one. You obviously knew about this test in advance right?

Even if you did have a calculator with a CAS there are no guarantees, and if you waste all that time putting problems into the calculator, it will seriously eat into the time you have to solve the other problems. At any rate I wish you good luck on your test today.
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Re: I need oslauncher cas before the SAT test!
« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2012, 04:27:11 pm »
In fact, I never found any problems in SAT (or even SAT Math II) that requires to use CAS stuff anywhere. In my opinion, CAS is for high-math like calculus, not the questions that SAT gives you. Also, as it mentioned before, none of the questions require calculator at all. :)
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Re: I need oslauncher cas before the SAT test!
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2012, 04:35:40 pm »
Quote from: Art_of_camelot on January 28, 2012, 11:07:12 am
These things take time, and in this case the program in question may not ever see a public release simply due to legality issues.

Indeed, its already amazing enough we has OS launcher in the first place ;)
Someone needs actively to spend hours and hours of work to be able to do this. And many of the best programmers here don't have any or very little time to do this.
Take Lionel Debroux for example, the original author. He has a fulltime job (IIRC), but still manages in the little time he got to work on TiLP and keep it up to date. This is an amazing job, and it would be unfair to ask more of him.
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Re: I need oslauncher cas before the SAT test!
« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2012, 05:41:54 pm »
Quote from: Juju on January 27, 2012, 09:15:37 pm
Yeah, at college where I live, graphing calcs aren't even allowed. If they are, most people will use TI-82 and 83+ calcs. We have to learn how to calculate matrixes, limits, derivatives and all those stuff the Nspire CAS can do by hand. Kinda hard, I agree, but it's doable.

thats a good school :D
we arent allowed cas either, and i hate any formula i need to solve with my calc
such a trouble to use it,
algebra isn't hard if you do it a lot, and you will just see those things :D
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Re: I need oslauncher cas before the SAT test!
« Reply #12 on: January 28, 2012, 05:44:04 pm »
good luck on your test nonetheless! get a score that is >9000 ! :D
you are probably taking it right now... XD
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Re: I need oslauncher cas before the SAT test!
« Reply #13 on: January 28, 2012, 05:45:45 pm »
oh lol yeah good luck :)
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Re: I need oslauncher cas before the SAT test!
« Reply #14 on: January 28, 2012, 07:42:48 pm »
Quote from: njaddison on January 27, 2012, 07:36:30 pm
Tommorow morning, i am taking the sat test. I need cas for my nspire, or else I will not be able to solve all of the problems in the time frame set!

When I took the SAT, all I had was a TI-84+ SE. I used it on precisely 3 problems: One, because I was too lazy to divide two decimals by hand, another because it was faster to add two integers with a calc, and the third because I needed to calculate the numerical sine of an angle. TL;DR: You don't need a CAS for the SAT. That's just TI's marketing.
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