Texas Instruments TI-83 Calculator User Manual


 
11-2 Lists
8311LIST.DOC TI-83 international English Bob Fedorisko Revised: 02/19/01 1:21 PM Printed: 02/19/01 1:37 PM
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Getting Started is a fast-paced introduction. Read the chapter for details.
Calculate the first eight terms of the sequence 1/A
2
. Store the results to a user-
created list. Then display the results in fraction form. Begin this example on a
blank line on the home screen.
1. Press
y
[
LIST
]
~
to display the
LIST OPS
menu.
2. Press 5 to select 5:seq(, which pastes seq( to
the current cursor location.
3. Press
1
¥
ƒ
[
A
]
¡
¢
ƒ
[
A
]
¢
1
¢
8
¢
1
¤
to enter the sequence.
4. Press
¿
, and then press
y
ƒ
to
turn on alpha-lock. Press [
S
] [
E
] [
Q
], and
then press
ƒ
to turn off alpha-lock.
Press
1 to complete the list name.
5. Press
Í
to generate the list and store it
in
SEQ1. The list is displayed on the home
screen. An ellipsis (
...) indicates that the list
continues beyond the viewing window.
Press
~
repeatedly (or press and hold
~
)
to scroll the list and view all the list
elements.
6. Press
y
[
LIST
] to display the
LIST NAMES
menu. Press
Í
to paste
Ù
SEQ1
to the
current cursor location. (If
SEQ1 is not item
1 on your
LIST NAMES
menu, move the
cursor to
SEQ1 before you press
Í
.)
7. Press
to display the
MATH
menu.
Press
1 to select 1:
4
Frac, which pastes
4
Frac
to the current cursor location.
8. Press
Í
to show the sequence in
fraction form. Press
~
repeatedly (or press
and hold
~
) to scroll the list and view all
the list elements.
Getting Started: Generating a Sequence