Re: A86: slightly OT: A symbolic Manipulator for the 86

To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A86: slightly OT: A symbolic Manipulator for the 86
From: ComAsYuAre@aol.com
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 22:24:51 EST
Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org


In a message dated 2/6/00 10:22:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, PsyKaBek@aol.com 
writes:

> Stupid question but whats a symbolic manipulator?

It leaves things in terms of variables (symbols) instead of always converting 
to a floating point number.

For example on a TI-89:
solve(3x+2y=4,y)
returns "y=2-3/2*x"

Or if you do
3x->y
5->x
Then typing "y" gets you "15".

It's good stuff :-)


----
Jonah Cohen
<ComAsYuAre@aol.com>
http://linux.hypnotic.org/~jonah/ (down)

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