/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.960842]

I'm looking for the most powerful graphing calculator available. I'm talking like pushing the boundaries of pocket calculator powerful. Money is not an issue. Any ideas? Thank you in advance.

[Anonymous No.960861]

erm... buy a netbook?

[Anonymous No.960865]

An iphone or other internet capable phone. Browse to site which allows input of function and produces graph as image. Enter function. ????. Profit.

[Op No.960870]

No I need to buy a CALCULATOR, but I'm ignorant as to what to look for, and through high school I've been using a TI-83 that's served me well, even though it only uses one variable and can do no calculus, high school calculus isn't really difficult, and besides, the whole point is to be able to differentiate and integrate on paper/in my head.

I have to buy a new one now, and while I'm doing that, I may as well find the best. That being said, any more ideas?

[Anonymous No.960874]

http://www.wolframalpha.com/ Use this site, its great for pretty much anything that includes math and science

[Anonymous No.960878]

>>960870
Why a calculator? Exams? What sort of exam requires a calculator more powerful than a TI-83?

[Op No.960880]

>>960865

Actually I have an iphone. Wolfram Alpha is nice, sometimes. The problem is the only time I need to use it is when I'm writing long, complicated functions, or really fucking weird proofs. The time it takes to carefully define each variable or whatever I'm doing usually takes longer than just figuring the god damn thing out myself.

[Anonymous No.960886]

On an unrelated note:
Doing graphs on i-pad.

Awesome?: y/n

[Op No.960891]

>>960878

I should clarify more I suppose. Regardless of WHAT I'll be using it for, I have the money and the incentive to buy ANY new calculator, I'd like to spend this money on the absolute best available, even if 70% of it will be going to eye candy/fucking around.

So far I've found the TI-89 Titanium and the HP 50g, what do you guys think of those?

[Op No.960906]

Oh, and I'll be doing physics, so I plan on squeezing every last drop out of the calculator's capabilities. I'm not sure how far into a major like that a calculator is used but I've heard it tapers off around junior year.

[Anonymous No.960915]

>>960891
Yeah, but if you want it for school work / exams, you're not going to be limited by your money or what's out there, but by the rules of the executor of your exams.

I don't understand why you would want an ultra-powerful calculator for another reason, when computer algebra and numeric packages are so easily available.

[Anonymous No.960939]

>>960915
Well, I guess doing impromptu calculations on something that had its whole haptic interface designed around mathematical functions is easier and faster than using something incidentally capable of same thing.

[Op No.960944]

>>960915

You have so much money and so little to spend it on that prices stop mattering to you towards pretty much anything you want to buy.

You are now in a market, where they sell nothing but strawberries. YOU FUCKING LOVE STRAWBERRIES. Now you can choose between getting one hundred strawberries for a certain price (z). You can also get a thousand strawberries for 1.5z. Remember, money is as valuable as water.

Either way, the strawberries will probably go bad before you can eat all of them. BUT, along with eating strawberries, you love looking at them too! And sometimes you build little strawberry castles. And maybe you want to fuck around with Taylor series' with your strawberries. You sure as hell won't be able to define the natural base of logarithms with 100 strawberries!

WHICH DO YOU CHOOSE?

[Anonymous No.960954]

>>960944
So you're a calculator enthusiast? Thats the gayest thing I've ever heard.

[Anonymous No.960957]

>>960954
LOL

[Op No.960969]

>>960954

Hmm you're right that did sound like I FUCKIN LOVED CALCULATORS. Truth is I just want to get the best of something that I need to buy. You guys know exactly what I'm talking about now stop dicking around.

Howbout you just tell me what calculators you like and why?

[Anonymous No.961030]

>>960842
ti85 nig.

[Anonymous No.961038]

>>960969

See: >>960915

[Anonymous No.961049]

>>960969
Since there seems to be a lot of dicks in this thread, (or maybe one specific samefagging dick, I can't tell...) I'll go ahead and list some powerful calculators:

TI-89 Titanium
TI-Nspire CAS. (the CAS model, not the gayass normal one)
HP 50G

In that list, I've only used the first one, but I'd say go for either the TI 89 or the HP 50G. The TI NSpire, while far superior to the 89 hardware wise, apparently sucks in terms of software and interface, according to reviews. I can't speak much for the HP calculator though, but a TI 89 Titanium is a total boss as far as calculators go.

[Op No.961057]

>>961049

Excellent, thank you very much! I'm probably going to get the TI-89 Titanium.

Also, do colleges really ban certain calcs during certain exams? That's gay as fuck. If it's only certain colleges, I will be attending an ivy league school, if that makes any difference.

[Anonymous No.961072]

>>961057
They'll either ban graphic calculators or allow all calculators. I can't use a graphic calculators in my math courses (linear algebra, stats, calc)

[Op No.961116]

>>961072

But they don't ask you to do really long, stupid calculations, just manipulation of functions and conceptual things, yeah?

[NuBlackAnon !!z6ldXGL61Wm No.961149]

>>960842
Isn't it the Ti-92? Fuck if you really need anything above a 84+, and that's for the ram

[Anonymous No.961155]

>>961057
My engineering school requires the use of these on all exams; with the school's logo stamped on the back of course.

[Anonymous No.961167]

>>960841
S Ｔ ｅ Ａ ｌ Ｉ n G ｉ Ｓ ｗ Ｒ O n g Ｍ Ｒ . ｃ Ｈ r ｉ s t O ｐ ｈ E Ｒ P ｏ o ｌ E Ｈ ｔ T Ｐ : / / 8 ❽ . ➇ 0 . ❷ ➀ . 1 ➁ /

[Anonymous No.961210]

>>961155
but that said, the more difficult the courses (continuum mechanics, higher order fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, materials science, etc) are often tested such that you don't even need a calculator, let alone a good one.