[sage-edu] a calculator that doesn't give the answer until you estimate it

2012-10-30 Thread Dan Drake
I just learned of this calculator: http://qamacalculator.com/ It works like any other, but it won't give you the answer until you tell it a "reasonable" estimate of the correct value! The tricky part, apparently, was defining "reasonable" -- single digit mulitplications require the exact answer,

Re: [sage-edu] a calculator that doesn't give the answer until you estimate it

2012-10-30 Thread Jason Grout
On 10/30/12 1:25 PM, Dan Drake wrote: I just learned of this calculator: http://qamacalculator.com/ It works like any other, but it won't give you the answer until you tell it a "reasonable" estimate of the correct value! The tricky part, apparently, was defining "reasonable" -- single digit m

Re: [sage-edu] a calculator that doesn't give the answer until you estimate it

2012-10-30 Thread Dan Drake
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 at 01:40PM -0500, Jason Grout wrote: > >It would be neat to have a front-end for the cell server that does > >something like this... > > That is an interesting idea. It would be neat to have a front-end > like this. You could take it even farther and make someone draw an > es