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Students in Florida are allowed to use calculators when taking the state’s Comprehensive Assessment Test. In fact, the state provides the only calculators allowed for use during the test. But the state is investigating because the Casio calculators they supplied to more than 17,000 students sometimes gave the wrong answers, such as 3 times 3 times 3 equals 81. (AP) ...At least now we know what happened to all those defective Pentium chips.


Publication Date: 26 March 2000

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