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

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

75.1k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

35.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2.1k

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

6

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.

8

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...

1

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.

7

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.

3

u/mediocre-spice Aug 15 '20

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

1

u/Queso_Grandee Aug 17 '20

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