Texas Instruments TI-89 Guide Book

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00_FRONT.DOC TI-89/TI-92 Plus: Front Matter (English) Bob Fedorisko Revised: 02/23/01 10:37 AM Printed: 02/23/01 2:10 PM Page viii of 16
Preview of Memory and Variable Management ................................. 350
Checking and Resetting Memory ......................................................... 353
Displaying the VAR-LINK Screen......................................................... 355
Manipulating Variables and Folders with VAR-LINK ........................ 357
Pasting a Variable Name to an Application ........................................ 359
Archiving and Unarchiving a Variable................................................. 360
If a Garbage Collection Message Is Displayed ................................... 362
Memory Error When Accessing an Archived Variable...................... 364
Linking Two Units.................................................................................. 366
Transmitting Variables, Flash Applications, and Folders................. 367
Transmitting Variables under Program Control................................. 371
Upgrading Product Software (Base Code) ......................................... 373
Collecting and Transmitting ID Lists................................................... 378
Compatibility between a TI
.
89, TI
.
92 Plus, and TI
.
92 ...................... 380
Analyzing the Pole-Corner Problem .................................................... 384
Deriving the Quadratic Formula .......................................................... 386
Exploring a Matrix ................................................................................. 388
Exploring cos(x) = sin(x)...................................................................... 389
Finding Minimum Surface Area of a Parallelepiped.......................... 390
Running a Tutorial Script Using the Text Editor ............................... 392
Decomposing a Rational Function....................................................... 394
Studying Statistics: Filtering Data by Categories .............................. 396
CBL 2/CBL Program for the TI
-
89 / TI
-
92 Plus................................... 399
Studying the Flight of a Hit Baseball ................................................... 400
Visualizing Complex Zeros of a Cubic Polynomial............................. 402
Solving a Standard Annuity Problem................................................... 404
Computing the Time-Value-of-Money.................................................. 405
Finding Rational, Real, and Complex Factors.................................... 406
Simulation of Sampling without Replacement................................... 407
Quick-Find Locator ................................................................................ 410
Alphabetical Listing of Operations ...................................................... 414
Chapter 21:
Memory and
Variable
Management
Chapter 22:
Linking and
Upgrading
Chapter 23:
Activities
Appendix A:
Functions and
Instructions

Texas Instruments TI-89 Specifications

General

Display size (HxV)	100 x 160 mm
Memory type	639K FLASH ROM, 188K bytes RAM
Compatible operating systems	Operating System 2.09
Battery type	AAA