[A83] Re: Superscript numbers
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[A83] Re: Superscript numbers
Oh I see what you are saying....so just make a standard for your program
and stick to it. If one can distinguish between the two superscript 3's,
then that's all good...otherwise you could use powers for 3rd root and
up or just insert a multiplication symbol....just an idea. As another
thought, you could actually design the superscript numbers 0-9 and have
a routine that prints them using the ROM call DisplayImage (if you
aren't programming for a shell).
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: assembly-83-bounce@lists.ticalc.org
[mailto:assembly-83-bounce@lists.ticalc.org] On Behalf Of Rob van Wijk
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 5:42 AM
To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: [A83] Re: Superscript numbers
I'm not talking about how the calc parses and calculates it. If I make a
program that outputs one of those examples, the user should be able to
understand what it means. And a human can't see the difference between
two identical characters, even if they have different values in the
calc's
memory.
Rob van Wijk
>
> But aren't those all tokens anyway? There can be 2 tokens with the
same
> or similar ASCII characters, but with different functionality....
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:assembly-83-bounce@lists.ticalc.org] On Behalf Of Rob van Wijk
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 4:07 PM
> To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
> Subject: [A83] Re: Superscript numbers
>
>
> > > > Superscript 3 is $0e or $d5
> > >
> > > One of these is used for "to the third power", the other one
> > > is used for cubic root. The difference is just one pixel though.
> >
> > Hey, that's cool! Never mentioned it. But why would ti use a double
> > character?
>
> Because you need to be able to tell the difference. Look at this
> example (try it on your calc if you don't understand it here):
>
> x^3 sqrt(x)
> x cubicroot(x)
>
> You can only tell them apart because of the different superscripted
3's.
>
> > Aren't there many "special" characters that could be used
> > instead of this one?
>
> At the end of the Ti Ascii table, their are a number of characters
that
> are all the same, if they needed extra symbols, I think they could be
> placed there.
>
> Rob van Wijk
>
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