The New TI-84 Calculator Can Code With Python

Welcome back! Something very strange just happened, Texas Instruments announced their new TI-84 Plus calculator, and it has a very interesting feature: You can utilize some Python programming within this calculator! When I first read this I was a bit confused, but after reading more into it I think it’s actually a pretty good idea. First of all, this calculator (as far as I can tell) cannot install any packages, so you won’t be able to install Tensorflow on it, but it does have a few packages built in:

At a high level, this calculator has a Python editor, the Python shell and a historical view of past scripts that were ran. We are able to run loops within this calculator, but there is a bit of a limitation, there is only 3MB of ROM and only 154KB of ram available:

At first I thought this calculator would be able to handle massive amounts of data processing, but it seems more like it’s only used for smaller computations due to the amount of ram. Also, it still looks like these calculators have the standard…