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Viewing and changing on à off status of stat plots, Setting the window variables – Texas Instruments TI-86 User Manual

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Chapter 5: Function Graphing

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05FUNC.DOC TI-86, Chap 5, US English Bob Fedorisko Revised: 02/13/01 2:22 PM Printed: 02/13/01 3:01 PM Page 81 of 14

Viewing and Changing On

àOff Status of Stat Plots

Plot1 Plot2 Plot3

on the top line of the equation editor displays the on

àoff status of each stat

plot (Chapter 14). When a plot name is highlighted on this line, the plot is on.

To change the on

àoff status of a stat plot from the equation editor, press $, ", and ! to

place the cursor on

Plot1

,

Plot2

, or

Plot3

, and then press b.

Setting the Window Variables

The graph screen window represents the portion of the
coordinate plane displayed on the graph screen. By setting
window variables, you can define the graph screen window
boundaries and other attributes.

xMin

,

xMax

,

yMin

, and

yMax

are the graph screen boundaries.

xScl

(x scale) is the number of units represented by the distance from one tick mark to the next

tick mark on the x-axis.

yScl

(y scale) is the number of units represented by the distance from one tick mark to the

next tick mark on the y-axis.

xRes

sets pixel resolution for function graphs only, using integers

1

through

8

.

At

xRes=1

(the default), functions are evaluated and graphed at each pixel on the x-axis.

At

xRes=8

, functions are evaluated and graphed at every eighth pixel along the x-axis.

To remove tick marks from
both axes, set xScl=0 and
yScl=0

.

Small xRes values improve
graph resolution but may
cause the TI

-

86 to plot

graphs more slowly

.