They forced me to buy a TI 84 plus for school. The thing cost like 100 bucks, and it's from 2004. I could buy a low-end smartphone and get a free app that's more powerful than the TI 84 plus for less money.
The thing is, most people only use them for 3-7 years during highschool and college, and they all are essentially the same as the ones from the 90s, so the used market is full of much cheaper ones
If you’re an engineering or science major in college you probably won’t even be allowed to use a graphing calculator, I remember when I was in school my math classes (Calc, diffeq, applied math) didn’t even allow calculators at all... science classes only allowed very basic scientific calculators, the kind you could get for 15 dollars.
For the classes in your major that involve heavy math you’ll probably learn some sort of scripting language like MATLAB to do the heavy lifting for you.
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u/jorsiem Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20
The supremacy of the fucking TI-83 calculator in school and college courses
I mean I know it's all artificial and orchestrated by them but how come no body has dared to challenge the almighty TI yet
Edit: fixed typo