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Re: Join the protest!
« Reply #15 on: February 23, 2013, 10:37:09 am »
Are you saying the school has it's own Casio calculators, or that is what the school recommends?
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Re: Join the protest!
« Reply #16 on: February 23, 2013, 10:55:15 am »
Quote from: Art_of_camelot on February 23, 2013, 10:37:09 am
Are you saying the school has it's own Casio calculators, or that is what the school recommends?


both
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Re: Join the protest!
« Reply #17 on: February 23, 2013, 10:55:48 am »
Ah, I see. That's pretty nice. :)
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Re: Join the protest!
« Reply #18 on: February 23, 2013, 11:25:48 am »
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Re: Join the protest!
« Reply #19 on: February 23, 2013, 11:27:21 am »
I wish my school were like that.
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Re: Join the protest!
« Reply #20 on: February 23, 2013, 11:31:08 am »
Quote from: blue_bear_94 on February 23, 2013, 11:27:21 am
I wish my school were like that.

all the more reason to protest ;)
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Re: Join the protest!
« Reply #21 on: February 23, 2013, 06:18:27 pm »
The only reason I would see a school legitimately avoid the PRIZM is if math classes make students write programs with drawing commands and that the slow commands turned them off. I mean, even though the calc runs at 58 MHz, it takes several seconds to generate this screen:


Now compare with the 84+CSE


The PRIZM screenshot runs slightly faster than the real calc and the 84+CSE one runs about 25-30% slower.

ASM, on the other hand, is much faster.
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Re: Join the protest!
« Reply #22 on: February 23, 2013, 07:10:47 pm »
Wait, by legitimately, do you mean that it was forced to use TI calcs doesn't count?
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Re: Join the protest!
« Reply #23 on: February 23, 2013, 08:57:01 pm »
Could you rephrase your question? I don't understand what you mean.
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Re: Join the protest!
« Reply #24 on: February 23, 2013, 09:05:36 pm »
Wait, by legitimately, do you mean (that it was forced to use TI calcs) doesn't count?
I meant to ask whether if a school was forced to use TI calcs, it would or wouldn't count as legitimate.
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Re: Join the protest!
« Reply #25 on: February 23, 2013, 09:48:41 pm »
Nah, by legitimately I mean that a school would refuse to use a calc model from their own will. For example, if a school decided to refuse to use the PRIZM due to brutal drawing speed hindering the calc use for math, then it would be a legit reason.

However, if a school decided to refuse to use the PRIZM in exchange of a bribe (pot-de-vin) from TI, then it wouldn't be a legitimate reason.

Some people suspected that TI did that in the past in order to retain their monopoly, but apparently it isn't the case and schools just didn't want to have to learn a new calc due to having used the 82 series for over a decade or due to having gotten hot deals from TI when buying calcs in bulk.
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Re: Join the protest!
« Reply #26 on: February 24, 2013, 08:55:10 am »
Or maybe the school might want to use TIs because of the extra cost and difficulty of switching.
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Re: Re: Join the protest!
« Reply #27 on: February 24, 2013, 02:37:18 pm »
Plus some students borrow their sis/bro's TI calc and might not want to buy a new model
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Re: Join the protest!
« Reply #28 on: February 24, 2013, 04:01:29 pm »
My school in germany used to have casio calcs, we switched at some point because the TI 'was better', as in, was better in math.
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Re: Join the protest!
« Reply #29 on: February 24, 2013, 04:59:08 pm »
Are the math features of TI calcs really better than those of Casio calcs?
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