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Orange Blooded [3460]
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Hooray!
Dec 17, 2020, 5:22 PM
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Hey, guys. I'm so happy, because I have lived through another year without needing Calculus!!
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Legend [16472]
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You should have some Pi..............
Dec 17, 2020, 5:24 PM
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CU Medallion [65036]
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Hey, be happy in the modern world. In the old days, when we
Dec 17, 2020, 5:58 PM
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had "problems", we had to work it out with a Slide Rule. 
That joke is so old, it might be new again.
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Orange Blooded [4150]
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Re: Hey, be happy in the modern world. In the old days, when we
Dec 17, 2020, 6:07 PM
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And fellows, I made it 77 years and have not had to use my knowledge of Art Appreciation. Almost fail to graduate from College over that course.
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CU Medallion [65036]
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Yep, my freshman year, the professors FORCED us to buy a
Dec 18, 2020, 12:11 PM
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Kueffel and Esser Log Log Duplex Decitrig Side Rule (Don't ask why I still remember the model number nearly 50 years later, it's one of those things that is permanently etched in the memory, evidently.)
Then, the very next semester, it became "ok" to use the suddenly available electronical calculator thingys.
The first widely marketed one (other than Hewlett-Packards, which were like GOLD) was the Texas Instruments TI-10. All it would do is Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, Squares, and Square Roots. That's IT. ~$150. Today you can get a pocket calculator with FAR more computing capacity than the Apollo Space Program computers had for around $5 to $10. And a basic one that does what the TI-10 would do is FREE on the interwebs.
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CU Medallion [64519]
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I took it in high school...
Dec 17, 2020, 6:20 PM
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and again my Fr. year at Clemson.
I sure do wish those new fangled graphing calculators had been around back then.
It definitely would have made life a whole lot easier than having to memorizing all of those dang formulas.
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Orange Blooded [3135]
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You are being very derivative***
Dec 17, 2020, 6:37 PM
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Re: You are being very derivative***
Dec 17, 2020, 7:04 PM
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Have not used Algebra or Philosophy either.
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All-In [32592]
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I use algebra all the time.***
Dec 17, 2020, 7:36 PM
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Orange Blooded [2538]
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Re: Hooray!
Dec 17, 2020, 8:42 PM
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My granddaughter had a poster on her bedroom door which said, “Remind me again how algebra will help me in later life”, Shw went to Edinburgh University, Scotland and majored in Arabic and Farsi. Her sister majored in Astro Physics and is studying Aeronautical Engineering in graduate school. Two sisters at the opposite end of the math spectrum.
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Orange Blooded [2883]
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Don't buy fully into the calculus theory..
Dec 17, 2020, 8:45 PM
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The arrow eventually arrives and you can jump out of the circle...
Go Tigers!!!
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