Re: Octal Operations on the TI-89


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Re: Octal Operations on the TI-89



Actually, it probably has something to do with the processor itself.

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>From:  The Pletchers[SMTP:bpspcp-travelin@WORLDNET.ATT.NET]
>Reply To:      The Pletchers
>Sent:  Saturday, March 21, 1998 8:04 PM
>To:    CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
>Subject:       Re: Octal Operations on the TI-89
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>That does seem awful strange, but I think they removed it because there is
>virtually nowhere this system is being used.  Sometimes in computers, but it
>has become obsolete.
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>At 09:27 PM 3/21/98 -0500, Bryan Rabeler wrote:
>>I was looking at the Graphing Calculator Comparison page
>>(http://www.ti.com/calc/docs/gmtrx.htm) and I noticed that the TI-85 &
>>TI-86 can do octal operations but the TI-89 can't (neither can the
>>92+).  Why is this?
>>
>>--
>>Bryan Rabeler <brabeler@ticalc.org>
>>   File Archives
>>   the ticalc.org project - http://www.ticalc.org/
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