[yarddog]

I used to be a whiz at math but as I get older, I get worser and worser.

I recently found a new TI calculator on clearance, marked down from $140 to $30. I think it is a TI Inspire CX. Anyway, after taking it out, playing with it and reading a few instructions online, I have no idea of how to use it.

I will probably give it to my Son-in-Law.

Imagine what those Atomic Scientists would have done with it.

[Sawdring]

I get worser and worser.

Did age have any effect on your grammar?

[rlmorel]

"...Imagine what those Atomic Scientists would have done with it..."

Wow! No kidding!

[PistolPaknMama]

I get worser and worser.

The only person I know that said that regularly was my 7th grade math teacher who looked like an Alfred Hitchcock knockoff. It was funny to see that phrase on a thread about math. :)

[libstripper]

It's fun for us old farts to reminis. I'm a retired lawyer and my favorite technological story is about being assigned to doing estate work in 1970. That work requires a lot of calculation for things like tax returns and final accounts. I needed a small calculator for that and didn't want a desk based monster, so I bought a Curta mechanical calculator that's about the size of a hand grenade and looks about as menacing with the tabs, dials, etc. It adds, subtracts, divides, and multiplies, up to about twelve figures and cost $170 in 1970 money. The first hand held electronic calculators came out about a year later, rendering my Curta instantly obsolete. Fortunately, I immediately realized it, put the Curta and its original instructions into their box, and still have it today. Its present value is about $1,300.

[YogicCowboy]

I garnered multiple awards in math and science (physics, chemistry, biology).

Use it or lose it. I haven’t used it as such for decades. I can’t do what I once did.

On the other hand, I took up composition theory at 44 from scratch and astounded the teacher. I out-performed her young home-schooled musical prodigies. (She called me in to her office one day to tell me she had never seen such a performance by a novice.) Music is math on the theoretical level.

You would get some - not all - back if you spent time and needed it.

[Do the math]

I love my TI inspire cx. Can't wait to get the cas version. You can download the manual for free at the TI website.