Re: RESOLVED: TIs work correctly, AND people are morons!
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Re: RESOLVED: TIs work correctly, AND people are morons!
With an attitude like this, you will keep a large public relations team
busy ( and well paid ) cleaning up your mess. Unless they just fire you
first!!
Come on out little man... the world awaits you... <grin>
Walt
At 01:08 AM 2/1/99 GMT, STL137 wrote:
>I don't want to see any more <obscenity> posts about the Factor( command on
>TI-92s, TI-92+s, and TI-89s. I say two things: TIs work correctly, AND people
>are morons! Here's why:
>1) The original poster is a moron for not seeing that the "correct" answer
and
>the "given" answer are actually the same.
>2) Almost everyone who responded is a moron for saying the same thing over
and
>over: "But MY TI does it correctly!" and/or "Perhaps you need to use
>parentheses!" This does not include people who pointed out that both the
>answers are, in fact, equivalent.
>
>The solution lies in Modes. AUTO and EXACT will give the "desired" answer,
the
>one with the number attached to the x. APPROX mode will give the "undesired"
>answer, with the number factored out. Now, I want there to be no follow-up
>posts to this.
>This thread DIES HERE!
>
>
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