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by romeoblade 1337 days ago
I ended up with a TI-86 as the cheaper ones were sold out at the time of the school supply rush.

It's the only reason I passed my math classes in high school. Luckily I kept my mouth shut so the teachers didn't know. Eventually they implemented a factory reset procedure on test day.

You would bring up the reset menu and the teacher would walk around and initiate it and confirm it.

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Today (at least in France) programmable calculators have an Exam mode. When it is enabled, all memory is locked and you need a computer to disable it.