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Offline SirG333

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Which calculator is recommended?
« on: August 31, 2011, 11:49:16 pm »
Hullo sirs.

I am beginning my senior year of high school and I am in need of a new calculator.  I need to have programming capability due

to the fact that I would like to have an engineering major.  The programming can be difficult or easy, it simply needs to be there.  Also, of

course the programming is nice for the games aswell.  I am interested in either the TI-Nspire CX CAS or the TI 89 Titanium or the TI-Nspire CAS. 

I realize that the Nspires have programming but with things such as Ndless, but I know that the TI 89 Titanium has excellent programming.

Due to the fact that I have only owned a TI 84 Plus Silver Edition and I have not done very much research on the programming capabilities of

the TI 89 or the TI Nspire, anything from the geniuses (or just the fellows on the forum) would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much sirs.
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Re: Which calculator is recommended?
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2011, 11:51:20 pm »
The TI-89T is an amazing platform that's underloved.
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Re: Which calculator is recommended?
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2011, 12:02:32 am »
The Nspire CX and Nspire above OS 3.0.1 have native Lua support, and once ndless 3.0 comes out it'll support C and ASM as well. (Which hopefully isn't too far off) :) I don't know much about the 89 though. :/
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Re: Which calculator is recommended?
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2011, 12:14:12 am »
the 84 is nice I reccomend the nspire CX too
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Re: Which calculator is recommended?
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2011, 12:19:49 am »
Heya and welcome to the forums. The TI-89 has big potential, but sadly is not popular anymore. If you plan to develop programs that you want other people to use, it might be best to go with the TI-Nspire CAS CX. There is also the Casio Prizm, but if you want a CAS calculator it's out of the question.
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Re: Which calculator is recommended?
« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2011, 12:24:26 am »
Annoyingorange, I think you mean to suggest the TI-84+ or TI-84+SE ;)
I second getting the TI-89 Titanium. Among other things, you can easily use C and it compiles well for the 89's m68k processor, unlike for the 84+(SE)'s z80. It also doesn't need its OS hacked to use native binaries.
Unfortunately, the TI-89T is, as DJ said, not very popular :/ [offtopic]TI-89T revival, anyone? I want one myself.[/offtopic]
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Re: Which calculator is recommended?
« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2011, 12:25:20 am »
either calc depends on your buget 84PSE ifyou can afford it if ot a reg 84+
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Re: Which calculator is recommended?
« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2011, 12:26:17 am »
The 84+ series is an excellent calc and I've found it adequate for a lot of engineering problems. The 89Ti is even better both math-wise and programmability-wise. As far as non-TI calculators, the Prizm is almost identical to the 84+ series except for a faster processor and a color screen. The HP 50 is also supposedly one of the best engineering calcs out there, so you might want to consider that as well.

However, I've personally found calculators to be most useful in engineering for quick and dirty "back of the envelope" calculations. If you plan on going into engineering, I would *highly* recommend becoming familiar with a mathematical package such as Mathematica (provided you can get access to it), Maxima, or Octave/Matlab in addition to a new calculator. There are some problems calculators just don't have the computational power to solve [quickly].
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Re: Which calculator is recommended?
« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2011, 10:56:53 pm »
The Nspires are the future of Calc programming, like it or not.  I recommend CX, and stick with Lua for a while.

@annoyingorange: he already has an 84SE.  ;)
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Re: Which calculator is recommended?
« Reply #9 on: September 01, 2011, 11:00:46 pm »
Can't hurt to get another Ti-84+SE
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Re: Which calculator is recommended?
« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2011, 05:04:00 pm »
As a programmer, I am in love with Axe Parser on my TI-84+ (wish I had an SE :P) (note that I don't really do a lot of computer programming, everything I do right now is all on-calc, so take that into account here)

As a mathematician, TI-89T is the freaking bomb dot com.

As a gamer, the TI-Nspire and Casio Prizm have the most potential (not that there's tons of great games for it quite yet, but it's getting there)


The kind of calculator you want depends on what kind of a person you are, and what you're looking for.
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« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2011, 05:32:26 pm »
If you want pure power programming, the 89T supports C (multiple compilers, too), is very well documented, has rich libraries, and even has an extremely powerful form of TI-BASIC.

If you want the up and coming "substitute" of the 89T programming wise, the Prizm is likely to be that in a while.
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