"Dedicated to Computation"

[UnprunedShrub]

When it states in the rules that calculators must be dedicated to computation, does that just mean that you are not allowed to put notes on an nspire or similar calculator?

[John Richardsim]

When it states in the rules that calculators must be dedicated to computation, does that just mean that you are not allowed to put notes on an nspire or similar calculator?

I wouldn't limit that statement to just that scenario, but yes, I definitely think that would be included.

I think this was something someone asked about in a post back in last year's threads. Lemme see if I can find it...Ah, here we go:

This might seem like a really pointless question, but could we use the TI-NSpire calculator? My concern is that it does allow one to use notes, unless it was activated on test mode, where it locks you from using notes. I don't know if the supervisor would allow the use of it or not. :-/

[Skink]

I don't really have a horse in this race because thirties are effective enough for mostly everything, but Nspires are dedicated computation devices, too (wherein other calculate-ors, too, have notes features), as far as I can tell. I bought the fancy one but haven't done much with it...my take was that participants somewhere were bringing their smart phones as calculators or something leading to problems.

[Jomacteacher]

Do we have an answer as to what calculators are considered "dedicated to computation"? I get the smart phone thing. Have they just reworded "graphing calculator" to this phrasology? Even though graphing calculators have the ability to add notes to them, most events that would use a calculator also allow enough notes that you wouldn't have to put notes in your calculator too.

[chalker]

FYI, there is a bit of a disagreement within the committee about whether this language is obvious / clear enough (and whether or not we should make an official statement). I STRONGLY encourage anyone confused by it to submit an FAQ.......