Re: Ti-86 Bug?


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Re: Ti-86 Bug?



This isn't a bug

the calc just displays the first few digits(I don't know how many
exactly and think it varies) of the answer, so you are really getting
6.99999999999999999999999999 when you multiply 2.33333333333333333 by
3. But the calc doesn't display all of the digits, so it becomes 7
after you cut off the last digits and round it up. Subtract 7 and you
get something like -0.0000000000000000001, take the first digits(-1)
and round, you get (-1E-13), get it? If you subtract 6 instead, you
get 0.9999999999999999999999999, this comes out to 1.

SMN <noveck@pluto.njcc.com> wrote in message
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>I'm using ROM Version 1.3, someone please check this. . . The results
are
>(obviously) wrong.  Enter the following equations just like this
>
>7/3      (2.33333333)
>Ans*3    (7)
>Ans-7    (-1E-13)
>
>The answer should be zero -- but it's NOT!  You can try fooling
around with
>that last step -- subtracting 6 still gives you one, and the only
error I
>see is when you subtract seven.  If you store the "7" you get after
the
>second step and use it later, it still reacts normally to everything
to
>everything BUT subtracting 7!!!
>
>


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