Chebucto Regional Softball Club

If I were an elephant and I saw a mastodon would that be like *my* bigfoot? BigTusk?

@mycrowgirl @elaterite

I read this book last year and enjoyed it immensely.

myrmepropagandist (@futurebird@sauropods.win)

"Trilobite: eyewitness to evolution" like "Annals of the Former World" but less daunting and metaphysical. "Annals of the Former World" is a book you get lost in, the deep past swallows you. The best way to read it is on a long train ride going out West. "Trilobite" is a book you can read in bursts on the bus, or in the tub... it's about science but feels like a magical adventure where secret worlds lurk behind bookshelves. Like one and you will like the other for different reasons.

Sauropods.win (sauropods.win)

@queenofnewyork

Is this like calling a portapotty a MWDU?

Mobile Waste Disposal Unit?

What is the difference between "narco terrorism" and "drug smuggling" ?

@astronomerritt

Cover sofa in a blanket so it can't go as deep in.

@oscherler @su_liam @adardis

So it's like being bisexual??

@ielenia @eigen

it's not "US Imperial"

yeah.... but is FEELs like that sometimes doesn't it?

@eigen

OMG. This kind of makes sense.

@rhempel

Ok maybe doing it on a list would be worth it?

I'm starting to wonder if it's there because of one textbook in some country or region I don't know about... or maybe it's just something that people who design calculators think is useful that baffles everyone else?

I tend to imagine that every feature included on a calculator like the TI-34 had to fight to be there.

It's a very stripped down calculator and, as an educator I can tell exactly why everything else is there. From little things, like how it won't reduce square roots (this would make teaching the conceptual part of that skill very annoying) to the inclusion of doing stdev for only 35 numbers.

But the ipart() and fpart() have me stumped!

I must go deeper!

@su_liam @adardis

**has existential crisis**

@risc Ok but that calculator also runs python which means you can get both results on the same device you hand to children.

@sidereal

You see this is why I don’t like this even if I can explain why it happens.

@mdc

nah it’s not you this is a little confusing— and I wonder if it should be considering these are educational devices.

I do think part of the problem is “int” is a type in python— but it’s just an operation on the calculator.

@mdc

I’m showing what TI basic would return.

@jordan

That’s not the 84 running python that’s how the TI calculator evaluates the function. If I opened python I’d get the same answer as I did on my computer running python.

@nazokiyoubinbou @jakebrake

It does have a little “operations” button where you can define a function with one variable.

Maybe it could be used with that?

@inherentlee
It has division with remainder by using 2nd and the division symbol. This thing is in the “math” menu.

On a slight tangent I have just noticed that on the TI 84 int(x) is NOT the same as in python. Who is to blame for this? #ti84 #python #horror