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calculator?

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 2:18 pm
by mirzaalx
Are calculators allowed? Pretty sure I read that they were not, but i just wanted to double check.

Thanks and good luck

Re: calculator?

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 2:37 pm
by dmahler
No they most certainly are not allowed. You should memorize easy roots like Sqrt[2] and Sqrt[3] and their inverses just for time's sake. That and remember how to do long division (yuck!)
-dm

Re: calculator?

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:55 pm
by secander2!
Nope, no calculators. Another thing you might want to memorize is the sins of the five most commonly used angles.

I know it's stupid, but since I've got a bad memory, I found this little trick helpful in memorizing them:

sin(0)=sqrt(0)/2=0
sin(30)=sqrt(1)/2=1/2
sin(45)=sqrt(2)/2=sqrt(2)/2
sin(60)=sqrt(3)/2=sqrt(3)/2
sin(90)=sqrt(4)/2=1

Re: calculator?

Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 5:06 am
by samuelarnold
Calculators are not allowed for the exam.

Re: calculator?

Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 3:27 pm
by sphy
secander2! wrote:...... since I've got a bad memory.
I thought I am having memory depletion, but alas....