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Post: #18
05-24-2012, 06:51 PM
Brian Walsh Offline
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How many of you remember the classic photograph of the guy in bed working away on the HP-65 while his wife looks blankly away, twiddling her hair in disappointment?

This immediately brought it to mind. Is he holding a 50g, or is it a TI?

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Post: #19
05-24-2012, 06:55 PM
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I'm a big fan of calculators - but in this situation I would definitely lay it aside! :-)

Franz

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Post: #20
05-24-2012, 09:12 PM
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Calculator? ...What calculator?

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Post: #21
05-25-2012, 09:29 AM
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Now we know that WP-34s stands for Widow Project. ;-)

John

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Post: #22
05-25-2012, 10:09 AM
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:-D

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Post: #23
05-25-2012, 07:31 PM
Paul Dale Offline
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My wife might agree too.


- Pauli

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Post: #24
05-25-2012, 01:50 AM
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I think the man is kissing the calculator goodbye and whispering to it that it will be alright, because he is going to put it away and get busy!!!

:=)

Namir

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Post: #25
05-25-2012, 02:15 AM
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Looks like she's cold, especially at her front ;-)

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Post: #26
05-25-2012, 02:36 AM
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Maybe he's having a problem with his hard drive.

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Post: #27
05-25-2012, 04:14 AM
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Indeed, he obviously had a severe head crash.

Edited: 25 May 2012, 4:15 a.m.

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Post: #28
05-25-2012, 03:38 AM
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HP-50G. TI-89 has a curved display.

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Post: #29
05-25-2012, 04:35 AM
Paul Dale Offline
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She's just jealous.

- Pauli

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Post: #30
05-25-2012, 06:41 AM
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Woman-"Make love to me and I will tell you all about Bessel functions, Gaussian quadrature, multivariate optimization, Newton's method, Eigen values, ..."

Man-"Goodness!! This woman can't shut up, can she? She is rubbing it in my face, because I failed my calculus course and she got A+ all through her math courses. Not like my quiet and very accepting little 'liebchen' here! Let me give my calculator a little kiss!"

Woman-"Go ahead and press the buttons of your little monster. I took the batteries out .... sooooo ... good luck with turning her on!!!"

Moral of the story -- pictures can be deceiving! She is the math genius and he is a math duffus with a high end calculator. Like the machine will think for his clulessness!


Edited: 25 May 2012, 7:50 p.m. after one or more responses were posted

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Post: #31
05-25-2012, 08:00 AM
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:-D

BTW, she's spelled 'Liebchen' ;-)

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Post: #32
05-25-2012, 07:50 PM
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Thanks Walter! I corrected the spelling in the original post.

:-)

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Post: #33
05-25-2012, 08:47 PM
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... after re-reading all your post I've tried even harder...

... but still can't find the calculator you all are talking about...

:-(

Cheers.

Diego.

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Post: #34
05-26-2012, 11:22 AM
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It's so frustrating when you don't have an ENTER command.

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