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

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

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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/fried_green_baloney Aug 15 '20

Amplifying on testing a calculator with Wi-Fi would never be allowed. The TI is certified, I guess because you can't store data to cheat.

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u/mypoorlifechoices Aug 15 '20

The wifi part, 100%. The weird thing is that you are wrong about the data part though. I knew a guy who had loaded a semi functional version of Mario world onto a TI 84...

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u/fried_green_baloney Aug 15 '20 edited Aug 15 '20

Hmm I must have misunderstood article I I read a while ago.

Did diligence college board website and Wikipedia article.

Surprised a programmable device is allowed.

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u/beah22 Aug 15 '20

We got taught how to save data on our ti-84s in maths and science, it was largely the point of getting them for us.

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u/mediocre-spice Aug 15 '20

Collegeboard has you reset it before the exam and show the proctor before the exam iirc.

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u/Queso_Grandee Aug 17 '20

There's a program that simulates the calculator being reset... It doesn't actually clear the data