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To: ari-freedom
ever heard of plotting points on graph paper?

Oh please. Plotting points on paper is as useful as searching the Internet with a 300 baud moden. Yeah. Technically, you can do it, but the process is so ponderous as to make the tool functionally useless.

249 posted on 11/24/2010 2:44:33 AM PST by papertyger
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To: papertyger

“Oh please. Plotting points on paper is as useful as searching the Internet with a 300 baud moden. Yeah. Technically, you can do it, but the process is so ponderous as to make the tool functionally useless.”

It doesn’t have to be exact. A parabola is a parabola. Just plot the key points (vertex, x and y intercepts, etc) or take x^2 and apply the necessary transformations.
The Alaska standards even call for the calc to be used to graph linear functions. Now what is the big deal about drawing a straight line??


255 posted on 11/24/2010 2:59:18 AM PST by ari-freedom (Islam is at war against America, while America is at the mall.)
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