Your right...that does sound dumb :)...but anyway you can either change the mode to approximate or just press diamond then enter: It "rounds" the answer off for you... -Steve- >I need some help, how do you divide 2 numbers with the ti-89 ? > >this sounds dumb but all i had to do on my 86 was type 8/9 and now i type >in the same thing in my 89 and i get what i typed >in or a reduced fraction > >how do i fix this?