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Try Chinese for a really good challenge, each glyph would have to be defined by a 16*16 or bigger square sprite.
- Liam P
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- 28 Jan 2026 08:46:22 pm
- Last edited by Liam P on 30 Jan 2026 10:54:51 pm; edited 1 time in total
u would have to do a language with 26 or less letters, right?
but, other letters could be defined with uppercase, lowercase, and numbers.
but, other letters could be defined with uppercase, lowercase, and numbers.
Liam P wrote:
u would have to do a language with 26 or less letters, right?
but know that i think about it other letters could be defined with uppercase, lowercase, and numbers.
but know that i think about it other letters could be defined with uppercase, lowercase, and numbers.
That is true but other types of languages are possible like Chinese, although the program for that would be huge it is possible to use sprites and strings to define characters and sentences.
the CE guy wrote:
Try Chinese for a really good challenge, each glyph would have to be defined by a 16*16 or bigger square sprite.
Yes!
But how is 16 by 16 gonna fit 齉?
The Case of the Congested Calculator
During finals week, Leo discovered a problem no AP syllabus had prepared him for: his sinuses.
He had a head cold so aggressive that his doctor used the word “legendary.” While procrastinating on calculus homework, Leo fell down a dictionary rabbit hole and learned the obscure Chinese character 齉, meaning nasal congestion. He laughed, sneezed directly onto his desk, and decided—fatally—that this character now represented his entire academic experience.
The next morning, his calculus teacher announced a take-home project:
“Use your calculator to model a real-world phenomenon.”
Leo, medicated and sleep-deprived, chose nasal airflow obstruction.
At some point around 2 a.m., Leo decided that the only acceptable way to label his graph was to have 齉 displayed on his TI-84 Plus CE. Not typed in the paper. Not written by hand. On the calculator itself. For “conceptual integrity.”
What followed was a four-hour descent into madness.
Eventually, inspiration struck. Using the calculator’s pixel-based drawing mode, Leo manually plotted the character 齉 stroke by stroke, one pixel at a time, on the graph screen. It took 312 pixels, three crashes, and one emotional breakdown, but there it was:
A blocky, unmistakable 齉, floating proudly above a graph of airflow vs. time.
The next day, he submitted the project.
The teacher stared at the calculator screen for a long time.
Then she said,
“I don’t know what language that is, why it’s here, or how you did this—but you clearly understand functions.”
Leo got an A−.
The minus was for sneezing during the presentation.
During finals week, Leo discovered a problem no AP syllabus had prepared him for: his sinuses.
He had a head cold so aggressive that his doctor used the word “legendary.” While procrastinating on calculus homework, Leo fell down a dictionary rabbit hole and learned the obscure Chinese character 齉, meaning nasal congestion. He laughed, sneezed directly onto his desk, and decided—fatally—that this character now represented his entire academic experience.
The next morning, his calculus teacher announced a take-home project:
“Use your calculator to model a real-world phenomenon.”
Leo, medicated and sleep-deprived, chose nasal airflow obstruction.
At some point around 2 a.m., Leo decided that the only acceptable way to label his graph was to have 齉 displayed on his TI-84 Plus CE. Not typed in the paper. Not written by hand. On the calculator itself. For “conceptual integrity.”
What followed was a four-hour descent into madness.
- Tried pasting Unicode into the calculator via TI-Connect CE (the software responded by freezing in quiet judgment).
- Tried abusing the graph title with exotic characters until the screen displayed something that looked like a dying barcode.
- Briefly considered writing custom firmware, then realized he was failing calculus.
Eventually, inspiration struck. Using the calculator’s pixel-based drawing mode, Leo manually plotted the character 齉 stroke by stroke, one pixel at a time, on the graph screen. It took 312 pixels, three crashes, and one emotional breakdown, but there it was:
A blocky, unmistakable 齉, floating proudly above a graph of airflow vs. time.
The next day, he submitted the project.
The teacher stared at the calculator screen for a long time.
Then she said,
“I don’t know what language that is, why it’s here, or how you did this—but you clearly understand functions.”
Leo got an A−.
The minus was for sneezing during the presentation.
Wow, AI is so confusing, what gave it 312 pixels for the size, and also, writing custom firmware? For what? This is a random useless kanji that has probably been used 19 times, custom firmware for that would be funny, anyway. Also, I do not get why a calc professor couldn't tell that 齉 is Chinese, it looks pretty obviously Chinese.
First you should post pone the project untill u have Hebrew in C.Then make it type left to right. Then continue in C.
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