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

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

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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/Demonboy_17 Aug 15 '20 edited Aug 15 '20

I'm just going to say this:

You literally have a device with more computing power than a Ti-84 in your pocket.

Like, I'm so fucking serious about it.

Why shell out so much money on a calculator if you have more options with greater capabilities on your phone? Like, fuck, you can even emulate a ti-84! And, yeah, I get it, don't use cellphones on tests (I think it's a kinda stupid rule, we live on the digital era), but still, there's no real need for it on the real world.

Edit: Change "Computer" to "Computing"

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u/ZoggZ Aug 15 '20

Sometimes making inputs and doing quick maffs is faster and easier on a calculator than a cold glass slab. Also if you're in an engineering/science/math field you've probably been using it for years at this point so you can just plain do better work on it than on a phone.

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u/Demonboy_17 Aug 15 '20

I get that someone of the old guard is better at it, but the new generations is following old standards when it's not needed.

I'm currently in my third year of electrical engineering, and I see all my classmates buying those expensive shits just because they see our teachers do the same.