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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Eaton Rapids, Michigan
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The Ti-89 is a pretty good calculator for doing beginning Calculus problems. In fact many Advanced Placement Calculus curriculums integrate it into the course for covering topics such as functions, limits, derivatives, integration and Riemann sums. It will also do a lot of the problems in a beginning statistics course. If you don't have an idea what confidence intervals are it won't do you a lick of good however.
Imagine trying to do a simple compound interest problem without a calculator or table.
Who wants to do this by hand?
$1000 compounded quarterly at 3 % for 10 years.
1000(1 + (.03/4))^(4*10)?
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