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The TI-92 and similar have a full-on computer algebra system that they use when they're in exact mode [1]. It does symbolic manipulation.

This is different from what the post (and linked paper) discuss, where the result will degrade to recursive real arithmetic, which is correct but only to a bounded level of precision. A CAS will always give a fully-exact (although sometimes very unwieldy) answer.

[1] See page 87 here: https://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/math/home/programs/und...



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