Re: TI 92 Errors
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Re: TI 92 Errors
Is it??? ppl told me thar any number ^0 is equal to 1 !!!
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On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, GARY WARDALL wrote:
> Sorry, but it is by mathemcatical convention that
> -2^2 is -4 not 4. The TI-92 is correct on this one.
> -2^2 does not mean (-2)*(-2) it means -(2*2).
> The TI-92 is in error on 0^0, however, when it gives 1.
>
> Good Luck
>
> Gary Wardall
>
>
>
> >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. On my wife's TI business calculator the same operation came
> >out correct. If I entered -28 x -28 the answer came out correct
> >(784).
>
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