Happy Pi Day (3.14)!

[GabeU]

[maratsade]

Celebrate Pi by eating pie. 

[Reggie]

It's amazing how Archimedes discovered PI without a computer. Today we can't work without a screen in front of our face.

[GabeU]

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@Reggie wrote:

It's amazing how Archimedes discovered PI without a computer. Today we can't work without a screen in front of our face.

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Too true, unfortunately,  I'm amazed at kids being allowed to use devices in school to do their math for them these days.  We weren't even allowed to use a calculator. 

[maratsade]

We were only allowed to use slide rules -- which of course, most everyone had no idea how to use.

[Liz]

Ahhhh I missed pi day! (I made waffles tho... so at least I had something sweet?).

I think I've seen a slide ruler once growing up, never did learn how those work. LOL I also wonder how an abacus is used... time to hit up Google.

-Liz

[maratsade]

1. Never to late to eat pie.

2. I could never figure out a slide rule.....I'm told only engineers understand those. 

4. I remember at one point learning about how an abacus worked. Maybe it was history class? But it didn't stick to my brain at all. And then calculators came, and that was all she wrote. 

[Liz]

Speaking of calculators... schools should definitely loan out their own TI-82s or whatever model they're using these days. We had to spend all that money on a fancy graphing calculator to use in a couple classes and NEVER TOUCH IT AGAIN.

-Liz

[maratsade]

"We had to spend all that money on a fancy graphing calculator to use in a couple classes and NEVER TOUCH IT AGAIN."

This.

Yes, ditto, ditto. What the fudge?  They were so expensive, and we used it twice. 

[Reggie]

Wow. They didn't have anything like a TI-82 in my school. But I didn't go to college. They look like they would have been fun to learn.

[MarkJFine]

I'm old enough to remember when slide rules were allowed in High School, but Bowmar Brains were not.

Was around the time when TI-57s came out. They were great too, but weren't very reliable after a year or so.

[Liz]

Huh I had to look up Bowmar Brains. 

Reggie, those TI-82 graphing calculators were pretty neat sometimes. You could program games in them or somehow transfer games onto the calculator; I had a bowling game on mine XD

-Liz

[MarkJFine]

TI 57/58/59s had a zip card to play Moon Lander, if I reall.

[maratsade]

Students these days use those fancy calculators to cheat on tests...

[Liz]

There have always been crafty cheaters... LOL