Re: TIB: int() error in TI-83?


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Re: TIB: int() error in TI-83?





in other words the calc thinks that 3root(125)=4.9999999999 or
something similar.

int(4.9999999999)=4



---Jeanne9005@aol.com wrote:
>
> 
> Because the calculator can only use an approximation of the 3root
125.  Yes,
> we know that the 3rd root of 125 is 5, but the calculator can only
assume
> that.  So therefore, when you ask for the integer, it will give you
the
> integer part of the assumption....
> 
> Glen Solsberry
> In a message dated 10/20/98 5:08:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
ben@jbic.com
> writes:
> 
> > I dunno, maybe I'm missing something here, I've only had the
calulator a
> >  week or so, but why does:
> >  3root(125) return 5 but
> >  int(3root(125)) return 4?
> >  (3root = cube root operator)
> >  
> >  That seems like a fairly straight forward piece of math to me...
iPart does
> >  the same. I can do:
> >  3root(125)->X 
> >  and X will return 5, but:
> >  int(x)
> >  returns 4!
> >  
> 

==
The Garth Johnson

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