[A86] Re: I have several questions.


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[A86] Re: I have several questions.




For the Ti83+ there's a (free, open source) Flash-app by Detached Solutions
(www.detacheds.com), it can simplify expression (as strings). Should be
possible to port it to the Ti86...

	Henk Poley <><

> Van: Cavan Carroll <cavanc@hotmail.com>
> 
> Yes they have...
> http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/64/6447.html
> It's very limited and not too stable.
> This kind of thing takes a LONG time to write.
> The TI-89/92's have pretty print because they licensed it from a company
(or 
> something along those lines) that had already written the code in C.
> In other words, it was pretty easy for them to stick it in.
> If you were to do this, you'd basicly be writing an entirely new Math 
> engine.
> Better get out every Math textbook you've ever had ;~)
> Just to shed light on how difficult it is, Cymbol was only capable of 
> solving three types of problems (quadratics, logarythms, and roots), you
had 
> to select which one you were trying to solve (ie. no command line input),

> and it crashed %90 of the time.
> 
> -----------
> >From: "Yi Lang Mok" <ylm63@hotmail.com>
> >
> >Has anyone, anyone at ALL thought about and made a FULL asm parser for
> >expressions? I mean like symbolic parsing like the 89?
> >
> >How is pretty print accomplished in asm when you have to parse a whole 
> >group
> >of characters?
> >
> >(Maybe i'm asking...how does the ti-98 rom work...)





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