NumWorks is a

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that designs, develops, and sells

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s. Their calculators are

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and have their hardware design available under a

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. Its first calculator, the N0100, was released on August 29, 2017 in Europe and the United States and is geared towards high school classrooms and students. The calculators use Python as their programming language, rather than a proprietary language (e.g.

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used by Texas Instruments calculators).

Development

Romain Goyet, the CEO of NumWorks, started the company in 2016. Before starting NumWorks, he was a software engineer at

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who also contributed to open-source projects such as

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Products

The NumWorks

was the first graphing calculator to be programmable using the

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language. It features a 320x240 IPS display with a 2.8″ diagonal. Internally, it is powered by a 216 MHz

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processor and 8 MB of Quad-SPI

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. The calculator has a 1450 mAh

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. The calculator weights and measures .

Features

The calculator was specifically designed to be modded using 3D printing. 3D models, schematics, and board layout details are available to the public under a Creative Commons license. The software on the calculator is updated on a monthly cycle. Updates can be downloaded to the calculator from its website using

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or by building the operating system from its direct source. The NumWorks calculator also includes an "exam mode" which removes all Python programs, resets all apps, and disables certain features. It can be disabled by plugging the calculator into a power source and selecting disable on the popup that appears. On March 22, 2019, NumWorks released an app for iOS and Android. It features the same functionality as the physical calculator except it does not have

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References

External links

NumWorks official site
* {{github, numworks Products introduced in 2017 Graphing calculators Programmable calculators