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When I was in our high school equivalent, our maths teacher blew that trick out of the water simply by having us all clear the calculator memory, then having us swap calculators at random.

Worked a charm. Next time, noone had bothered to hide notes as they didn't want to spend time helping some random sod out.

Solidarity is dead.

(You could, of course, try to counter this by having the entire class install the same cheat - but that would be unlikely to succeed...)



I’d be in trouble: I use RPN calculators, and am practically crippled if I try to use anything else.

Of course, I’d probably not be in as much trouble as whatever poor sod got stuck with my HP.


Oh, we had one approved graphing calculator - well, two. The Casio FX-7700 and its big brother, the FX-9700.

Problem solved. Except if you happened to prefer RPN; I had a HP-48 which I had bought prior to the edict naming The One True Calculator - the day I enrolled at university, I started using it again, only to be met with a similar edict in my second term, naming the Ti-89 the only kosher graphing calculator.

Since I graduated, the HP-48 has been in daily use.


They only allowed the one with the computer algebra system? How strange.


An HP 48 put me through engineering school. I now own an HP Prime. Sweet piece of hardware. Of course, I have no use for it anymore.


48?


I’m actually not sure I still have my 48. I have one of the new limited edition 15s and an ancient 41.




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