A86: Re: idea for sybolic maipulation


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A86: Re: idea for sybolic maipulation




How about storing an ascii code to a variable and then extrapolating back
when you have the result?

I dont know
Andres Garcia

-----Original Message-----
From: Ekauq@aol.com <Ekauq@aol.com>
To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Wednesday, February 04, 1998 5:37 PM
Subject: A86: idea for sybolic maipulation


>
>i'm new to asm and don't know any, but i have an idea for sybolic
manipualtion
>for the ti-86 and it would be a useful asm program.
>
>symbolic manipulation for those of you who don't know is:
>
>X/5     <- this is what you would enter and there is no value in X
>X/5     <- this is the output, pretty simple huh?
>
>well it gets worse because the feature isn't built in to the ti-86 (the
ti-92
>is the only calc of ti to have this feature).  well the simple solution
would
>just to print the same thing you entered right, wrong here is another
example
>
>(X+2)^2           <- this is what you enter
>X^2 + 4X + 4    <- this is the output, see the problem
>
>the math the calculator uses is already given, it just needs to be able to
use
>variables that have nothing assigned to them, that's where you expert
>programmers in asm come in.
>
>and i think this should work in the background like an add-on for the 86
>
>if this works then it will be the coolest program on the 86, and will be as
>common as ZTetris.
>