Re: TI-86 Calculator capabilities

To: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
Subject: Re: TI-86 Calculator capabilities
From: Larry G Currie <larry1492@JUNO.COM>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 20:27:13 EDT
References: <Pine.SGI.3.95.971018124311.5641A-100000@umbc8.umbc.edu>
Reply-To: Larry G Currie <larry1492@JUNO.COM>

On Sat, 18 Oct 1997 12:53:33 -0400 Mike Gagne <mgagne1@GL.UMBC.EDU>
writes:
>Q2.
>Is there a way to program the calculator
>to take a 3rd derivative, 4th derivative
>...etc.???? And without writing a 50k
>program!!!

Somehow, determine the power on the highest power of x, and put your
derivation part of the program in a for loop.  eg.
input=> x^5+3x^2+2
find highest power \sto>\ R
:for(i,1,R)
{derive equation}
:end

-Larry C.
Larry1492@Juno dot com

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TI-86 Calculator capabilities

From: Mike Gagne <mgagne1@GL.UMBC.EDU>

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