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.
Whenever I went to college for engineering I used a basic scientific calculator. Googling around I believe that the TI 36X Pro may have been the model. I never had any issues with it. It couldn’t graph, but if I needed plots I would do them with a programming language or excel depending on the context.
Graphing calculators definitely aren’t necessary.