Using a vector in an expression, Editing vector dimension and elements – Texas Instruments TI-86 User Manual

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Chapter 12: Vectors

12VECTR.DOC TI-86, Chap 12, US English Bob Fedorisko Revised: 02/13/01 2:31 PM Printed: 02/13/01 3:03 PM Page 172 of 10

Using a Vector in an Expression

♦

You can enter the vector directly (for example,

Nг

5,10,15

♦

You can use 1 and - n to enter a vector name’s individual characters.

♦

You can select the vector name from the

VECTR

NAMES

menu (- Š &).

♦

You can select the vector name from the

VARS VECTR

screen (- w / &).

Editing Vector Dimension and Elements

ᕡ Display the vector

Name=

prompt screen.

ᕢ Enter the vector name. Either select it from the

VECTR

NAMES

menu or enter the characters.

ᕣ Display the vector editor.

- Š '
&

ᕤ Change or accept the vector dimension.

ᕥ Move the cursor to any element and edit it.

Continue moving the cursor to other elements.

ᕦ Save the changes and exit the vector editor.

# # #

# #

To use X to change an element value on the home screen, the syntax is:

value

vectorName

(

element#

)

When you execute the
expression, the answer is
displayed as a vector.

You can use

, and

to edit matrix

elements. You also can
overwrite existing characters.