16–2 Programming
82E978~1.DOC TI-83 international English Bob Fedorisko Revised: 10/26/05 1:47 PM Printed: 10/27/05 3:02
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Getting Started is a fast-paced introduction. Read the chapter for details.
A program is a set of commands that the TI-82 STATS executes sequentially, as if
you had entered them from the keyboard. Create a program that prompts for the
radius R and the height H of a cylinder and then computes its volume.
1. Press ~ ~ to display the
PRGM NEW
menu.
2. Press Í to select 1:Create New. The
Name= prompt is displayed, and alpha-lock i
on. Press [C] [Y] [L] [I] [N] [D] [E] [R], and then
press Í to name the program
CYLINDER.
You are now in the program editor. The colon
(
: ) in the first column of the second line
indicates the beginning of a command line.
3. Press ~ 2 to select 2:Prompt from the
PRGM I/O menu. Prompt is copied to the
command line. Press ƒ [
R] ¢ ƒ [H]
to enter the variable names for radius and
height. Press Í.
4. Press y ãpä ƒ [R] ¡ ƒ [H] ¿
ƒ [
V] Í to enter the expression pR
2
H
and store it to the variable V.
Getting Started: Volume of a Cylinder
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