Re: TIB: TI-86 math error?

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Subject: Re: TIB: TI-86 math error?
From: The Garth Johnson <gbjohnson@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 14:28:41 -0700 (PDT)
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try using parenthesis around the 3m on the "6U/3m"->eq line.  it would
then be
:"6U/(3m)"->eq



---Jeff Glover <jglover@geocities.com> wrote:
>
> 
> I found a bug in a program I made.  It turns out that it is not my
fault
> but somthing the ti-86 does. Why does this give me the wrong answer?
> Here is some sample code.  You can get the acutal program from my
homepage
> called Conversion.
> 
> Sorry can't copy the code directly because it uses a lot of wierd
symbols.
> The "-->" stands for the store command.  
> 
> :.001->U
> :.000001->m
> :"6U/3m"->eq
> :Disp eq
> :St->Eq(eq,eq)
> :Disp eq
> :DelVar(U
> :DelVar(m
> 
> The TI-86 gives 2*10^-9 or 2E-9.  The answer should be .002.  I get
the
> right answer if I type 6E-6/3E-3.  Which is useless since I need to be
> using a variable for my program.
> ------------------------------------------
> Jeff Glover
> jglover@geocities.com
> http://jglover.home.ml.org
> 

==
The Garth Johnson

Visit my website!  http://www.bigfoot.com/~garthjohnson



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