Monday Math Madness: TI Calculators!
18 Aug 2008 Quan Quach 5 comments 94 views
Calculator Madness!
If you thought $10 gift certificates to Amazon was good, then you’ll be amped up to hear about the prizes for the next TWO Monday Math Madness. Our partner in math madness, Sol Lederman, has secured two very cool TI calculators (that can be shipped internationally!) to give away in the next two Monday Math Madness contests!
Since the bounty has increased exponentially in value, we decided to spruce up the contest a little bit.
Paradigm Shift
This week’s Monday Math Madness supplies a different twist. Instead of asking readers to submit a solution to a problem that we post, we are instead asking readers to submit their own favorite math/logic problem. The problem that we deem the “best” will be featured in the following Monday Math Madness, and the person who submitted the problem will be rewarded with one of the calculators. For more information on the contest, visit Sol’s website. Essentially, we’re looking for interesting/clever/intriguing problems that have elegant/unexpected answers. Good luck to all!
Don’t Miss Out! Subscribe to our Feed!!
Since we’ll be hosting the next MMM at blinkdagger, you should subscribe to our feed so that you won’t miss out on an oppurtunity to win a fantastic TI-calculator. Our last contest involving the Martian Problem only had 9 submissions (only 3 were correct), so your chances could be pretty good!
Nostalgia
TI-Calculators have come a long way ever since my high school days. Back then, I was still using the ancient TI-85, shown here. It was a nice calculator that got me through AP Calculus. But after that, I moved on to the much improved TI-89, which I still have in my closet to this day.
The TI-85(1992) was designed as a powerful engineering and calculus calculator. It was the first TI calculator to have a link port and assembly programming capability (through an unintentional loophole). It has since been eclipsed by the TI-86, which features TI-85 compatibility along with more advanced features.
The TI-89 (1998) sports all of the power of a TI-92 Plus, but in a traditional handheld design. Along with the TI-92 Plus and Voyage 200 it is one of TI’s most sophisticated calculators, with such features as 3D graphing, upgradable flash ROM, built-in assembly language programming, and a generous amount of user-available memory. The TI-89 Titanium will eventually replace this model.
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TI-89 is the best calculator ever made on Earth…. or maybe in the universe. I’m shifting through my math books and notes now. hahahaha. Who wanna do some Fourier transform for fun?
TI-89 was my favorite because it could do symbolic math. My integration and differentiating skills were greatly eroded because of this calculator.
Quick, whats the integral of ln(x)? Anyone?
Let’s not forget all those programmable games you could put onto these bad boys. Instead of doing calculations in class, you could be playing a poor man’s gameboy and your teacher would think you’re hard at work punching in numbers!
That calculator would be nice. On the other hand..
Do I know of any ‘good’ math problems? No.
Do I feel like digging any up just for a calculator when chances are I won’t win anyway? No.
Oh well.
I could say “find a method of finding the nth fibonacci number through successive squaring via some linear transformation” but I don’t think anyone knows how to find that without digging through loads of crap (I surely don’t). It isn’t really a ‘good’ problem. If someone submits it and happens to win.. er, oh well? =)
Come on Kinks!! I’m sure you’ve heard of some cool problems in the past. I was hoping to see a submission from you. Would you dig up a cool problem for a rubik’s cube instead?
Hello Quan,
I like your tutorial very much! Thank you for share your knowledge.
Could you please give some tutorials about how to use MEX?
Best regards!