Another Question About Which Calculator to Buy

Shadow Phoenix · Post by **Shadow Phoenix** » Wed 26 Jul, 2006 5:36 pm

leofox wrote: It's not like the 84+SE is more useful on tests compared to the 83.

Oh, now its on. 1.5MBs of storage space !!!! You can store games, and programs at the same time man!!!

chickendude · Post by **chickendude** » Wed 26 Jul, 2006 5:53 pm

Hm, that's true. I always thought that it was because the TI code was terribly slow, I never even considered the difference in resolution.

leofox · Post by **leofox** » Wed 26 Jul, 2006 7:14 pm

Shadow Phoenix wrote:
leofox wrote: It's not like the 84+SE is more useful on tests compared to the 83.
Oh, now its on. 1.5MBs of storage space !!!! You can store games, and programs at the same time man!!!

umm.. *points to titaniums memory*

chickendude · Post by **chickendude** » Wed 26 Jul, 2006 7:31 pm

How much of the 89t's archive is available to the user?

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Wed 26 Jul, 2006 7:49 pm

But 89 programs take up more space, so you can fit fewer in the same space.

Also, Cabamap is faster than 89's calculations, and that isn't affected by resolutions. Try doing 1000! on Cabamap and an 89. the 89 can't even do it.

from the cabamap included readme:

Cabamap Computation Times

Each time was hand-measured with a stopwatch.

The results are given for Cabamap v0.07 on a TI-83 Plus Silver Edition versus AMS 2.08 on a HW2 TI-89. They measure the last operation, e.g. (15! * 5^15) measures the time to multiply those two integers after they have been calculated. The faster calculator has an asterisk by the time.

In some cases the TI-89 could not complete the computation due to software limitations on integer lengths.

Computation----83+ SE----------------89

298! -----------*5.4 seconds---------10.8 seconds
2^1024--------*0.6 seconds---------3.0 seconds
15! * 5^15----*0.4 seconds----------1.3 seconds
2^8192---------19.9 seconds
500!-------------15.8 seconds
1000!------------69.3 seconds

Shadow Phoenix · Post by **Shadow Phoenix** » Wed 26 Jul, 2006 9:46 pm

leofox wrote:
Shadow Phoenix wrote:
leofox wrote: It's not like the 84+SE is more useful on tests compared to the 83.
Oh, now its on. 1.5MBs of storage space !!!! You can store games, and programs at the same time man!!!
umm.. *points to titaniums memory*

The problem is that they dont allow 89T at most of the tests in our school. (specificly Chemistry heh, SUCKAR!!!!!! (that was at one of the teachers in chem who thought you could'nt have the periodit table on 84+s))

chickendude · Post by **chickendude** » Thu 27 Jul, 2006 12:14 pm

Hah well I ended up getting the Titanium. Agh but apps screen with the buttons on it is incredibly annoying, is there a way to not make that the default place to go to?

Btw, it was a HW4

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Thu 27 Jul, 2006 1:01 pm

my 84+SE can beat your 89 at calculations.

chickendude · Post by **chickendude** » Thu 27 Jul, 2006 2:40 pm

Hah, probably could.

Liazon · Post by **Liazon** » Thu 27 Jul, 2006 9:51 pm

press mode, go to the very bottom of the list, you're looking for the apps home option. Turn it off if you don't want it.

the default is a list, like the regular 89

chickendude · Post by **chickendude** » Thu 27 Jul, 2006 10:12 pm

Thanks! The buttons are incredibly annoying.

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