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I have a calculator that does that, and I love it. In engineering, I don't always need decimal values, so sometimes it's better just to have a simplified fraction. I can press a button to change it from a fraction to a mixed fraction or engineering notation, so whichever form of the solution is most useful is a button-press away.

 

As an engineer I agree.  But as a former middle school student, 26,590,040/5 doesn't have the same ring to it as 5318008

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I have a calculator that does that, and I love it. In engineering, I don't always need decimal values, so sometimes it's better just to have a simplified fraction. I can press a button to change it from a fraction to a mixed fraction or engineering notation, so whichever form of the solution is most useful is a button-press away.

Yup, my TI-89's default setting was fraction mode. It's very helpful when you have to simplify certain equations. Those calculators are an engineer's best friend... Yes, I'm a nerd.

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Yup, my TI-89's default setting was fraction mode. It's very helpful when you have to simplify certain equations. Those calculators are an engineer's best friend... Yes, I'm a nerd.

 

You guys are amateur.  I got through my engineering curriculum with the original TI-82.  That thing didn't even do imaginary numbers.

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You guys are amateur. I got through my engineering curriculum with the original TI-82. That thing didn't even do imaginary numbers.

I went through quite a bit of Engineering and Physics without any calculator. I remember one time I showed up to a physics exam (I'd been skipping class all semester and decided to attend again one day, and it happened to be mid-term day) without a calculator and my pages were just a mess of hand-calculations (equations strewn everywhere since I'm a flow-of-thought type rather than structured and neat), but I still managed an A- on it.
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I went through quite a bit of Engineering and Physics without any calculator. I remember one time I showed up to a physics exam (I'd been skipping class all semester and decided to attend again one day, and it happened to be mid-term day) without a calculator and my pages were just a mess of hand-calculations (equations strewn everywhere since I'm a flow-of-thought type rather than structured and neat), but I still managed an A- on it.

 

LOL, well done.

 

I remember preparing for some exam and taking some ridiculous amalgamation of equations and solving it out so I had the real and imaginary parts of the equation completely separated and I could now compute them on my calculator.

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I went through quite a bit of Engineering and Physics without any calculator. I remember one time I showed up to a physics exam (I'd been skipping class all semester and decided to attend again one day, and it happened to be mid-term day) without a calculator and my pages were just a mess of hand-calculations (equations strewn everywhere since I'm a flow-of-thought type rather than structured and neat), but I still managed an A- on it.

 

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So these two stories just came up on my facebook feed back to back...

 Yummy.

 

 

Oh gross.

 

They are tearing down a bunch of cubicles at work today and there is a rumor going around that the workers found droppings that were "larger than mouse droppings"

i want that meat...in my mouth.  now.

 

*thatswhatshesaid*

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