Re: TI-86 / Display up a certain amount? Significant digits???

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Subject: Re: TI-86 / Display up a certain amount? Significant digits???
From: Token <Why_fret@THE.SMALL.STUFF>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 08:46:53 -0700
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Modem Boy wrote in message <3525D3CF.67B2@geocities.com>...
> >I've written some small BASIC programs, and they usually end up
> >outputting a number... usually with TOO many digits...
> >
> >Is there anything I can add to a command to make it display say... up to
> >4 significant digits? Or something along those lines?
> >

The command is 'round(number,# of decimals)'.

It can be found on the top of page 348 in the TI-86 book.

If you want to write your own sub in basic to do this it might look
like this:(call X your original multiple decimal point number)

4*pi=X            (yields 12.5663706144)
int(X*100)=Xs     (yields 1256)
Xs/100=X          (yields 12.56)

OK, it dosn't really round, but this is one way to do it in your
own code.

So Long,

Token

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TI-86 / Display up a certain amount? Significant digits???

From: Modem Boy <modemguy@geocities.com>

Re: TI-86 / Display up a certain amount? Significant digits???

From: "Scott Noveck (SMN)" <noveck@PLUTO.NJCC.COM>