Re: Octal Operations on the TI-89

To: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
Subject: Re: Octal Operations on the TI-89
From: Rene Kragh Pedersen <u971168@DAIMI.AAU.DK>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 05:14:01 +0100
Organization: DAIMI - Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
References: <19980322040425.AAA1992@[12.70.2.4]>
Reply-To: u971168@DAIMI.AAU.DK

The Pletchers wrote:
>
> That does seem awful strange, but I think they removed it because there is
> virtually nowhere this system is being used.  Sometimes in computers, but it
> has become obsolete.
>
> At 09:27 PM 3/21/98 -0500, Bryan Rabeler wrote:
> >I was looking at the Graphing Calculator Comparison page
> >(http://www.ti.com/calc/docs/gmtrx.htm) and I noticed that the TI-85 &
> >TI-86 can do octal operations but the TI-89 can't (neither can the
> >92+).  Why is this?
[...]

Not at all. Octals are still in use. I think the rationale was that
people who work in octals know how to do them, as do those working in
hex (not found in the TI-92 either).
They saved ROM in every place they could.

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          Rene Kragh Pedersen
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