Re: TI 92 Errors

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Subject: Re: TI 92 Errors
From: Niklas Brunlid <e96nbr@EFD.LTH.SE>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 18:56:29 GMT
Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
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On Mon, 02 Feb 1998 00:04:07 GMT, 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.  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).

Did you enter -28^2 or (-28)^2?


Niklas Brunlid - http://www.efd.lth.se/~e96nbr
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TI 92 Errors

From: John_Archer@nowhere.com