TIB: A few mistakes...

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Subject: TIB: A few mistakes...
From: Jeff Glover <jglover@geocities.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 17:28:24 -0400
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"->" stands for the store command not "-->".  Also in these equations:
'2*10^-9',  '2E-9', and '6E-6/3E-3' the '-' is a negative sign not a
subraction.
At 05:22 PM 10/5/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>I found a bug in a program I made.  It turns out that it is not my fault
>but somthing the ti-86 does. Why does this give me the wrong answer?
>Here is some sample code.  You can get the acutal program from my homepage
>called Conversion.
>
>Sorry can't copy the code directly because it uses a lot of wierd symbols.
>The "-->" stands for the store command.  
>
>:.001->U
>:.000001->m
>:"6U/3m"->eq
>:Disp eq
>:St->Eq(eq,eq)
>:Disp eq
>:DelVar(U
>:DelVar(m
>
>The TI-86 gives 2*10^-9 or 2E-9.  The answer should be .002.  I get the
>right answer if I type 6E-6/3E-3.  Which is useless since I need to be
>using a variable for my program.
>------------------------------------------
>Jeff Glover
>jglover@geocities.com
>http://jglover.home.ml.org
>
>
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Jeff Glover
jglover@geocities.com
http://jglover.home.ml.org

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TIB: TI-86 math error?

From: Jeff Glover <jglover@geocities.com>