Comment by namdnay
FWIW my kids in France had to have “numworks” calculators. A lot more modern than the Tis of old (and cheaper!)
FWIW my kids in France had to have “numworks” calculators. A lot more modern than the Tis of old (and cheaper!)
And they run python!
There's even a smartphone (iOS & Android) app to give it a try, but the magic of a calculator comes with tactile buttons.
Wow. The single click to get to the full emulator from that homepage is an awesome, refreshing thing to see. Seems like a great calculator (and company) to standardize on. I don't even hate TI, but this thing is clearly far more advanced than the TIs I grew up on.
If the 84+ was $40 by now I would feel differently, but I think TI could have at least built something like the Numworks (with things like real fraction notation easier menus, and a lighted color screen) if they wanted to continue charging the same price now as they did 25 years ago for what was then a pretty respectable piece of tech for its time. Instead they did that innovation but only on calculators too overpowered to be allowed on tests, and left that market with a stagnant TI-8x series.
It's a shame it doesn't use Giac. RPN CAS forever! ;)
You can run KhiCAS that’s a port of Xcas as a third party add-on, there are some weird limitations but it mostly works.
Those were also full open source until some time ago, then they switched to source-available for the userland with a closed source kernel to prevent modifications allowing cheating on exams. It’s sad they had to take away freedom from the majority of users just to prevent a minority cheating.