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Are graphing calculators obsolete? (lemmy.ml)

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Hi, I want to self-study some pure math. I have a TI-84 CE from high school. But that thing is like 8-bit and it graphs quite slow. Even the python editions are 8-bit. When i think of 8-bit, i think of the old atari game consoles from the 80's.

Are graphing calculators obsolete in this day and age?

There are only 2 good 32-bit calculators that are not ancient dinosaurs and those are the hp prime g2 and the TI-Inspire cas editions.

Should i buy one of those or skip them all together for R / Julia programming languages?

Apart from quick and one-off calculations, they don't seem very usefull.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Against the current: I studied pure math and didn’t use any way to automatically graph anything until my master study. So you don’t need any method to graph stuff. That doesn’t mean you should do without, just that you can.

I think that by now an app on your smartphone would be best, since it would require little to no initial investment. Or you can ramp up on computer programs, such as wolfram alpha (website), or matlab (licensed program, probably not worth the money). If you like programming, sooner or later you’ll probably end up on Python.