Texas Instruments TI-86 - Creating a List Name by Storing a List; Displaying List Elements Stored to a List Name

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Chapter 11: Lists
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Creating a List Name by Storing a List
To store a list, the syntax is:
{
element1
,
element2
,
...
,
element n
}
¶
listName

Enter a list directly. (To store a result expressed as
a list and currently stored in
Ans
, as shown in the
example, begin these steps at step 2.)

Paste
¶
to the cursor location. ALPHA-lock is on.
(steps 2
through 5
above)
X

Enter the list name. Either select a name from the
LIST NAMES
menu or directly enter a name one to
eight characters long, starting with a letter.

Store the list to the list name.
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A
ä ã
B
ä ã
C
ä
1
1 2 3
b
Displaying List Elements Stored to a List Name

Enter the list name on the home screen;
either select it from the
LIST NAMES
menu
or enter the characters.

Display the list elements.
- ” (
&
b
You need not enter the close
brace
(
}
)
when you use
X
to store a list name.
To delete a list name from
memory, use the
MEM
DELETE:LIST
screen
(Chapter 17).
The TI
-
86 distinguishes
between uppercase and
lowercase letters in list
names. For example,
ABC123
,
Abc123
, and
abc123
are three different list names.