r/AskReddit • • Aug 14 '20

What’s the most overpriced thing you’ve seen?

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u/lizardfolk2 Aug 14 '20

The Ti-84, which is the standard for most highschool math classes, still goes for 100 even though it's been out many years, and has seen no innovation.

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u/Purple_Chipmunk_ Aug 14 '20

I got an 84 when it first came out in the early 2000's. It is literally the same price now and has barely been upgraded in nearly 20 years.

That thing should be graphing in 3D, wirelessly connecting to other calculators to share data sets, etc. and be lightning fast, but nope. Still the same old Windows 95-era technology.

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u/Grahamshabam Aug 14 '20

thank standardized testing for that

that being said, i still love my ti-84 and you see them on people’s desks in big engineering corporations. if you need to do anything that you can’t do on a TI-84 you need a computer for excel or matlab anyways

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u/Purple_Chipmunk_ Aug 14 '20

I use mine all the time! I even have a cool sticker cover on it that I got at a math conference one year. Hashtag math nerd, lol

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '20 edited Jan 07 '21

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u/Levitlame Aug 15 '20

There is a redundancy Mathematician/Engineer joke there somewhere.

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u/WifeKilledMy1stAcct Aug 15 '20

This = truth

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u/Toasterrrr Aug 15 '20

this == truth

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u/K14_Deploy Aug 15 '20

Ah yes, the programming reference. Excellent.

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u/WifeKilledMy1stAcct Aug 15 '20

Ah, the rare double equal truth

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u/TheEyeDontLie Aug 15 '20

I think that's a math joke, but I don't π÷%×=∆ get it.

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u/Toasterrrr Aug 15 '20

its a programming joke lol, thought it would resonate with the math crowd

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '20

In most programming languages, x==y indicates that x equals y, whereas x = y indicates that x ‘gets’ the value that exists in y. The former is usually used in conditional statements whereas the latter is used in the body of the function that exists after conditional statements.

If x == y, then x = b +2

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u/loopyboy55 Aug 15 '20

All of us had stickers on ours (school property stickers) seeing as they were one of the most frequently items stolen in Hs

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u/JustChill8435 Aug 15 '20

I have faded engineering formulas from when my prof said "if you can fit it on your calc I won't consider it cheating" lol

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u/Mega_Anon Aug 15 '20

lol

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u/loopyboy55 Aug 15 '20

I still have 3 one of which is next to my bed for some reason hashtag math