A86: idea for sybolic maipulation

To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: A86: idea for sybolic maipulation
From: Ekauq@aol.com
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 17:14:10 EST
Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org


i'm new to asm and don't know any, but i have an idea for sybolic manipualtion
for the ti-86 and it would be a useful asm program.

symbolic manipulation for those of you who don't know is:

X/5     <- this is what you would enter and there is no value in X
X/5     <- this is the output, pretty simple huh?

well it gets worse because the feature isn't built in to the ti-86 (the ti-92
is the only calc of ti to have this feature).  well the simple solution would
just to print the same thing you entered right, wrong here is another example

(X+2)^2           <- this is what you enter
X^2 + 4X + 4    <- this is the output, see the problem

the math the calculator uses is already given, it just needs to be able to use
variables that have nothing assigned to them, that's where you expert
programmers in asm come in.

and i think this should work in the background like an add-on for the 86

if this works then it will be the coolest program on the 86, and will be as
common as ZTetris.

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