Re: TI 92 Errors


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Re: TI 92 Errors



On Mon, Feb 02, 1998, John_Archer@nowhere.com <John_Archer@nowhere.com> wrote:
> Has anyone else experienced any calculation errors with the TI-92?
>
> I entered -28 raised to the 2d power and got -784.  Now anybody knows
> that a negative number multiplied by a negative number is a positive
> number.

The calculator is doing the exponent then multiplying by -1.  Try (-28)^2
and it should work.  It does that on the 85 also.

jeff


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