Texas Instruments TI-82 Review

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[___viceroy_]

I'm a super-computer you're like a TI-82

[touhvang]

I picked one up at the thrift store for 60 cents. Saved myself $$$ for my Calculus class. Good review btw.

[modafoto]

I had this back in 1996. Great device :)

[JohnUsp]

The TI-82 includes the functionality of the TI-83 with the following improvements.

• Multiple graph styles to differentiate the look of each graph
• Graph-Table split screen (in addition to the horizontal split screen)
• An interactive Equation Solver
• Ability to give names to lists, attach formulas to lists, and enter 999 elements (compared to 99 on the TI-82)
• Logistic Regression and Sine Regression
• More random number generator functions
• An alphabetical CATALOG menu of all graphing calculator instructions
• Ability to evaluate complex numbers

Advanced statistics capabilities including:

• Hypothesis tests
• Confidence intervals
• Probability distribution functions

Financial functions including:

• Time-Value-of-Money features
• Cash flows
• Amortization

Keyboard and Menu Changes:

• The Y-Vars menu is now a sub-menu of the [VARS] key rather than a 2nd function of the [VARS] key.
• The graph Format menu is now a 2nd function of the [ZOOM] key rather than a sub-menu of the [ZOOM] key.
• abs( function moved to the [MATH] [NUM] menu from above the [x^-1] key.
• Implied multiply precedence is different. The TI-82 will evaluate 1/2X as 1/(2X) and the TI-83 evaluates it as (1/2)*X.
• Prefix functions like sin(, cos(, etc. come with an open parenthesis to help clarify which values the functions apply to. For example, sin(2X) rather than sin 2 X.
• Sequence graphing mode on the TI-83 is different than on the TI-82. It is based on the the TI-92. Details are in the TI-83 Guidebook in Chapter 6: Sequence Graphing.

The TI-83 Plus Silver Edition, which is the upgrade of the TI-83, also includes Flash technology for Calculator Software Applications (Apps).

[AsBi]

just found a TI-82 STATS from a thrift store it was lying around between other cheap stuff like a useless thing and as soon as i saw it, decided to buy it at any cost but fortunately the seller didn't know about this thing so he asked for equivalent to 8 dollars. I bought it I love it.

[sysghost]

I'd also like the coloured calulator. But, *gee*, those was extremely expensive back then. Could buy powerful "laptops" for less the price. On a student economy that was not even remotely possible.

[hdofu]

pretty much every curiculum in math for highschools has textbooks designed for use for this calculator even now (the ti 83 and 84 lines are not significant departures)

[mickobrien]

I had this in 1993. I was 15 and also had just started smoking pot. I stink at technical things, but this Asian kid that sat next to me in some class knew how to program these things to make games.... My mind was blown. You can program this thing? Crude as the games were, they were way more fun than listening to the teacher's dry boring bs.

I made this moronic game called 'Finding The Pot'. Clever title, huh? It was this long-ass winding series of options the character had to select from. And if you chose the right steps, you eventually were rewarded with the final screen--A pile of pot. Hehe
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I tainted nerddom with my drug-themed game. It wasn't appreciated by the kids programming 'real' games at the time. The underlying programming wasn't very sophisticated. But all the burnouts thought it was Street Fighter. My dopey friends got a kick out of it, too. And it spread like wildfire. I forgot how, but you were able to import and move data between other calculators.

The only reason I had this kick-ass calculator was it was mandatory for math class. As a high-school dirtbag, I wasn't the kid you'd expect would own a fancy calculator. So that's what I was doing with it. I never could find a use for it pertaining to math, though. Haha. I never reached trig or those crazy math classes that really put it to use.

That's my TI-82 story. It's not the most riveting, but it's all I got.

[calvinseraile]

Can you make a video about the games on that calculator thx

[americantadpole]

schools require a minimum TI-83 calc, from 1999. At least at my school...

[kikyouwuv]

What is the difference between this one and the newer version with the rounded buttons?

[sodiumchloride]

This calculator is 30 years old, there are much better ones nowadays for relativly cheap

[rajendrabareto]

I bought this for 2.5$ from used market.