Re: (85)Am I insane?
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Craig & Brandee <bracra@davlin.net> wrote:
>do this:
>-1 C->K . . . = -274.15 (negative 274.15 mind you!!!)
>-5 C->K . . . = -278.15
>-0 C->K . . . = -273.15 (???!!??!?!??!)
>
>Yeah no big deal but is the a bug? Is this old news? It really does
>not affect my mathematical performance in Temp conversion but thought
>I'd share with the TI community.
Yeah, it's actually old news: the precedence isn't what you'd expect.
When you type -1 C->K , the calculator is actually computing -(1 C->K)
which isn't what you want -- you're expecting (-1) C->K. So there's
the fix: use parenthesis to clearly tell the 85 exactly what it is you
want it to compute, and you'll have no problem...
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Ben Edelman
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