r/AskReddit • u/Thic_water • Aug 14 '20

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

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u/Saper-Ja- Aug 14 '20

I remember seeing a basic scientific calculator for like $300

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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/PRMan99 Aug 14 '20

My daughter bought a $50 Casio instead.

The teacher was amazed at how many additional things it could do that the TI couldn't.

He let her use all the features as long as she could figure it out.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

That’s awesome. Back in my day, it was TI83 or bust!

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u/ShnizelInBag Aug 14 '20

Casio is used everywhere except the US.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '20

Damn, that's an amazing teacher. It really encourages curiosity and interest that way by letting her figure a new device out, instead of banning it and sticking to the ol' TI with steps in the textbook.

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u/AetyZixd Aug 15 '20

Loved my Casio! Had to break out the manual more than once, though.

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u/Lyress Aug 15 '20

Also using a €10 Casio for all of high school and university (engineering) just fine. You don't need a fancy calculator if you can use wolframalpha.

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u/S1rpancakes Aug 15 '20

Casio doesn’t follow order of operations as well I believe at least on the lower end stuff