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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Other => Topic started by: CalcMax on January 14, 2017, 03:29:19 am

Title: 131kb RAM in TI -84+SE?!
Post by: CalcMax on January 14, 2017, 03:29:19 am
Would someone mind telling me why TI Connect CE claims that my Ti-84+SE has 131kb RAM? Shouldn't it be 128kb?
Title: Re: 131kb RAM in TI -84+SE?!
Post by: harold on January 14, 2017, 04:09:40 am
128kb = 128*1024 = 131072 bytes, so they're just using the decimal SI prefixes.
Title: Re: 131kb RAM in TI -84+SE?!
Post by: CalcMax on January 14, 2017, 06:57:47 am
Aaaahh.... So TI doesn't know to use binary?! Or are they doing this to confuse users?
Title: Re: 131kb RAM in TI -84+SE?!
Post by: JosJuice on January 14, 2017, 11:36:38 am
Wait, so TI is actually admitting that TI-84+SEs have more than 24 KiB of RAM? I thought they never would do that  O.O
Title: Re: 131kb RAM in TI -84+SE?!
Post by: Eeems on January 14, 2017, 12:25:29 pm
Aaaahh.... So TI doesn't know to use binary?! Or are they doing this to confuse users?
Nope, they are just using the International System of Units (SI) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units) version of the Kilobyte (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte) which states that since kilo used as a prefix means 1000 (103), a Kilobyte is 1000 bytes. Basically they are using the internationally accepted Metric measurement.

Wait, so TI is actually admitting that TI-84+SEs have more than 24 KiB of RAM? I thought they never would do that  O.O
They just say that it's got 24KB of available RAM. (https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-calculators/ti-84-plus-se?category=specifications) (Notice the KB not the KiB)