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TI-84 Plus CE-T Python Edition graphing calculator

by mrintellectual on 4/13/22, 7:07 PM with 1 comments

• by duskwuff on 4/13/22, 7:26 PM

  Don't get your hopes up. The Python feature of this calculator is incredibly disappointing -- it's basically only there as a "checkbox" feature for some European school curricula which require it.

  The (Circuit)Python interpreter runs on a SAMD21 microcontroller, which is separate from the main eZ80 processor in the calculator. Python programs are limited to using the 32 KB of memory available in the SAMD21, run slowly, and have limited access to the hardware features of the calculator.