Oh, and we'd have been given a big, fat F if we'd be caught with a calculator. They weren't allowed even in class, nevermind at a test.
Regards,
Back when I was a boy,
We didn't have calculators,
or computers ...
We had slide rules,
And trig function tables,
With print so small that you needed a magnifying glass,
AND WE LIKED IT!
We were allowed calculators in college. . .but in high school. . . the most we were allowed was a slide rule.
Ah, for the good old days of a big bamboo Decitrig hanging in a scabbard off your belt: the sign of the nerd LONG before the Pocket Protector was invented. . .
Ha! When I took trig, there were no calculators.