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Interesting item on eBay (I AM NOT SELLER) Message #1 Posted by Calcfan on 26 Dec 2006, 9:00 a.m. This person came up with a way to cheat on calculator rules... TI-89 in a TI-83 Plus's clothing!

Re: Interesting item on eBay (I AM NOT SELLER) Message #2 Posted by Namir on 26 Dec 2006, 10:02 a.m., in response to message #1 by Calcfan Any warranty offered?

Re: Interesting item on eBay (I AM NOT SELLER) Message #3 Posted by Paul Guertin on 26 Dec 2006, 11:59 a.m., in response to message #1 by Calcfan I emailed him, asking if I could pay with $100 bills I made from $1 bills.

Re: Interesting item on eBay (I AM NOT SELLER) Message #4 Posted by Howard Owen on 26 Dec 2006, 1:17 p.m., in response to message #1 by Calcfan This is advertised as a way to cheat on exams. I wonder what eBay rule(s) that violates? Regards Howard Edited: 26 Dec 2006, 1:17 p.m.

Re: Interesting item on eBay (I AM NOT SELLER) Message #5 Posted by Calcfan on 26 Dec 2006, 2:35 p.m., in response to message #4 by Howard Owen Actually, I do not think it violates any ebay rules. Things like this will just add to the burden of being a teacher I guess. Students risk an automatic F though by doing something like this.

Re: Interesting item on eBay (I AM NOT SELLER) Message #6 Posted by Dave Shaffer on 26 Dec 2006, 5:27 p.m., in response to message #4 by Howard Owen "This is advertised as a way to cheat on exams." At the community college where I taught, the biology and chemistry exams were done with school-supplied TI-30s (which were plenty adequate), for reasons like this, I guess. I can see the engineer testers using this as an example of why they have to supply the (limited range of) calculators. If the students would spend as much time studying as trying to figure out how to bend the system, they would do just as well!

Re: Interesting item on eBay (I AM NOT SELLER) Message #7 Posted by jbssm on 26 Dec 2006, 5:47 p.m., in response to message #6 by Dave Shaffer Well still, are guys like this that get to do the great things we see around ... not the average studious student that somewhere in the process always looses the ability to innovate and just sticks to the system instead of trying to break it ... those ones get to be employees of the guy that does this kind of nifty stuff, they can earn a big enough salary, but no one will remember them in 100 years.

Re: Interesting item on eBay (I AM NOT SELLER) Message #8 Posted by Mike on 26 Dec 2006, 4:03 p.m., in response to message #1 by Calcfan My comment to him was: "So basically, you cheated your way through school?"

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