Re: TI-86 / Display up a certain amount? Significant digits???

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Subject: Re: TI-86 / Display up a certain amount? Significant digits???
From: James Marshall <marshall@ASTRO.UMD.EDU>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 16:46:52 GMT
Organization: Astronomy @ U. of MD, College Park
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Reply-To: James Marshall <marshall@ASTRO.UMD.EDU>
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In article <3525D3CF.67B2@geocities.com> modemguy@geocities.com writes:
>I've written some small BASIC programs, and they usually end up
>outputting a number... usually with TOO many digits...
>
>Is there anything I can add to a command to make it display say... up to
>4 significant digits? Or something along those lines?

Well, it's definitely not the exact same thing as significant digits, but
I suppose that you could just put the calc into fixed decimal mode rather
than floating and force it to show say 4 decimals.  Rules for significant
digits are kind of odd and could easily change from calculation to
calculation, but using a fixed number of decimals would at least trim down
the number of digits you're seeing.

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TI-86 / Display up a certain amount? Significant digits???

From: Modem Boy <modemguy@geocities.com>