A86: Re: Re: Impossible? Or maybe not... but then....
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A86: Re: Re: Impossible? Or maybe not... but then....
Wow... i didn't know that... hehe, now i actually have an insentive to buy
the 89 besides the flash rom!
Alan Wong
-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Karneges <jgkarneges@ucdavis.edu>
To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Thursday, November 12, 1998 4:18 PM
Subject: A86: Re: Impossible? Or maybe not... but then....
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>The TI-89 is an entirely symbolic calculator. It can derive, integrate,
and
>solve any equation you give it. I have it, and it rocks =). The same goes
>for the TI-92.
>
>So there's no need to attempt this on the TI-89 since it already does it.
>As for the TI-86, it could be done because of all the memory, but it would
>be very hard. I wouldn't know where to start =).
>
>-Justin Karneges [Infiniti]
>
>>Ok... i don't know if anyone has thought of this or anything, so here it
>>goes. At school, we were testing out a program on a computer, and it was
>>pretty good. Not as good as what could be done, but good anyway. This
>>program could symbolically solve almost any equation. Symbolically. That
to
>>me sounded like some cool and wacked out programming code to get that type
>>of insane math answer, without the need for numbers! Imagine finding the
>>equation of a derivative, and not the numerical value. But knowing this is
>>possible on a computer, it must have been some nice coding, and not magic.
>>So is this possible on an 86, or any ti-calc for that matter? I know this
>>might be actually possible on an 89 since it has flash rom, and completely
>>rewriting the code is possible, but a big task. So is it really possible
>>given all the constraints of asm, the amount of memory to work with, and
>>that this is a calculator and not a computer?
>>
>>Alan Wong
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