Re: complex #'s

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Subject: Re: complex #'s
From: Andrew Lewis <floodle@USA.NET>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 22:22:31 GMT
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On Wed, 22 Apr 1998 21:33:49 -0400, Glen Nowak <gnowak@erols.com>
wrote:

>on the TI86 when ever you get an complex # as an answer it displays it
>like an ordered pair but that isnt what my teacher wants she wants it in
>the form a+bi can anyone tell me if you can put the answers into that
>form on the 86

If you need to write it in that form, the first number  in the ordered
pair is a and the second is b.  The number means the same thing, it is
just a matter of how the TI stores it in memory.  So if you do
something with the calculator using a complex number displayed as
(3,6) on the calculator, and then do it by hand using the more
conventional 3+6i, the answer will be the same.

References:

Re: A new Ti-85 site.

From: The Pletchers <bpspcp-travelin@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>

complex #'s

From: Glen Nowak <gnowak@erols.com>