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Re: Trivia Category
Posted By: unipeg, on host 209.156.0.134
Date: Monday, August 23, 1999, at 12:53:14
In Reply To: Re: Trivia Category posted by Paul A. on Sunday, August 22, 1999, at 22:29:16:

> > > > > Anybody got a calculator that can hold more than 12 significant digits?
> > > >
> > > > Sure. Do you prefer Ti-81 or Ti-83?
> > > > Or does it have to be a pocket calculator?
> > >
> > > Doesn't matter, so long as it can calculate 52! .
> > >
> > > Pa"what's a Ti?"ul
> >
> > It stands for Texas Instrument, the brand of graphing calculator I'm referring to.
>
> Aha. Silly me.
>
> But does it hold 36 significant figures? :o)
>
> Pa"I was in the last year at highschool that wasn't allowed to use graphing calculators"ul

actually, no... but the TI92 (or 96, i forget which) does... but that one might as well be a minilaptop. it's absurd, my brother won it in Mathcounts

uni"sister of the breat math brain"peg

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