[TIB] Re: TI-OS bug (help?)

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Subject: [TIB] Re: TI-OS bug (help?)
From: "Andrey" <ag_silver_83p@ameritech.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 21:06:28 -0500
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Perhaps because the TI-OS stores 14 digits and only shows ten, it's really
something like -.99999999999, so the TI-OS knows that it's not -1, but
outputs that way rounded to ten digits?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur J. O'Dwyer" <ajo@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: <ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 3:46 PM
Subject: [TIB] TI-OS bug (help?)


>
>
>   Try the following line on your TI-83:
>
> randM(1,1)*3^-1
>
>   until you get the answer
>
> [[-1]]
>
>   (from dividing the matrix [[-3] by 3, presumably).
>   Then type
>
> fPart(Ans(1,1))
>
>   Using TI-83 ROM Version 1.O8OOO, I get the answer
>
> -1
>
>   rather than zero, as expected.  Can anyone else
>   reproduce this behavior?  If so, what other
>   conditions cause the behavior?  What ROM versions
>   does this work on?  [I've checked Kevtiva's site,
>   and they don't seem to know about it.]
>
>  -Arthur
>
>
>

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From: "Arthur J. O'Dwyer" <ajo@andrew.cmu.edu>