Pushing the envelope

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[Poll #1198616]

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[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

I sometimes actually use a calculator to perform calculations, like taking the average of four numbers.

*is more ashamed than proud of this*

[damerell.livejournal.com]

My CU-approved (mid 90s) Casio still works; I would have ticked it.

[ceb.livejournal.com]

Ditto, but I prefer my 6th-form calculator, which was too whizzy for CU approval.

[sparrowsion]

I believe my mid-80s TI (bought for O levels) still works, and that would be my preferred calculator in absence of an interactive programming language. It got me through most of my exams (it lacked hyperbolics, which I needed for the MSc, but my back-up calculator provided those), bar the DipCompSci—the CU-approval regulations came in before that but after my Part II and it was too primitive (see above) to be allowed. Sadly, no calculations were required for that last set of papers, otherwise I would have been gleefully reaching for the log tables.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

I've still got that one, but the CU one is solar powered and therefore actually works.