Re: TIB: lots of help needed

To: ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TIB: lots of help needed
From: gussie@alaska.net (Grant Stockly)
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 15:00:43 -0700
Reply-To: ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org


>TGaArdvark@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> >>> Basically, the calc views a 0 as a 0, and EVERY OTHER NUMBER as 1.
>> >>
>> >> Everything less than one is false including negative numbers. 1 and
>> >> greater is true.
>> >
>> > I think this is false.
>>
>> I stand corrected.
>> :If 1
>> :Disp "1"
>> :If .9
>> :Disp ".9"
>> :If .1
>> :Disp ".1"
>> :If 0
>> :Disp "0"
>> :If -1
>> :Disp "-1"
>> :If -100
>> :Disp "-100"
>> :If 100
>> :Disp 100
>> Resulted in: (on a TI-86 ROM 1.2)
>> 1
>> .9
>> .1
>> -1
>> -100
>> 100
>>
>> The only missing one was zero. I apologise.
>
>I must admit, it got my attention pretty fast!  I'm still new at using
>this implied true/false stuff.  I used to always use the If X=1 or If
>N<>0, but I thought that maybe I had mis-understood something...whew!
>
>BTW, this is totally off topic - but I am including it with a calc
>topic so it isn't totally spam. Is there anyone out there that wants
>to play a game of chess over the email?

I do!  Maybe we can hack a basic chat program so that it saves your move as
a string or var and then you can e-mail it.  That would be cool...

Grant