<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Students don't need to use calculators often. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">One reason may be to calculate the transmission time of a random file with X records, each with F fields of a specific data type or length at M megabits per second.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">A total file length of 5318008 bytes tends to amuse them, and justifies the possession of the calculator.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 August 2015 at 13:47, Andrew Shortell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shortell@get2me.net" target="_blank">shortell@get2me.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">to calculate sizes of files, to see if they fit on back up devices.<div><br></div><div>e.g. dont want them to try to put a 900MB file on a cd<br><div>
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Melton</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:shortell@get2me.net" target="_blank">shortell@get2me.net</a> (This List)</div><div>@acsbear8 (twitter)</div></div></span></div></span></div><br></div><br></div></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 28 Aug 2015, at 11:32 am, Darren Scott <<a href="mailto:dscott@ccb.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">dscott@ccb.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Heyo,<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span 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August 2015 11:05 AM<br><b>To:</b><span> </span><a href="mailto:sofdev@edulists.com.au" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">sofdev@edulists.com.au</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span> </span>[Year 12 SofDev] Calculators Soft Dev Exam<u></u><u></u></span></div></div></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Hi all<u></u><u></u></span></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> </span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Just a clarification do students need calculators during the Soft Dev exam, if so, what type and why? <u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> </span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Cheers<br><br>Daryl Croke<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Senior School eLearning Leader<br>Mount Ridley College<br>8338 3600<br><a href="http://mountridleycollege.vic.edu.au/" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://mountridleycollege.vic.edu.au/</a><u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">keep on coding</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="http://geekstuff.global2.vic.edu.au/" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://geekstuff.global2.vic.edu.au/</a><br><a href="http://physicalcomputing.global2.vic.edu.au/" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" 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