Texas Instruments PLUS TI-89 - Manual (Page 5)

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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 iii of 16
Flash Applications...................................................................................... x
Keystroke Differences ............................................................................. xii
What’s New?............................................................................................. xiv
Getting the TI .89 Ready to Use ................................................................ 2
Getting the TI .92 Plus Ready to Use........................................................ 3
Setting the Contrast and Selecting a Language...................................... 4
Performing Computations......................................................................... 8
Graphing a Function ................................................................................ 11
Turning the TI .89 / TI.92 Plus On and Off ............................................ 14
Setting the Display Contrast ................................................................... 15
The TI
.89 Keyboard ................................................................................. 16
The TI .92 Plus Keyboard......................................................................... 17
Modifier Keys ............................................................................................ 18
Entering Alphabetic Characters............................................................. 21
Home Screen............................................................................................. 23
Entering Numbers .................................................................................... 25
Entering Expressions and Instructions................................................. 26
Formats of Displayed Results................................................................. 29
Editing an Expression in the Entry Line ............................................... 32
Menus......................................................................................................... 34
Using the Custom Menu .......................................................................... 37
Selecting an Application.......................................................................... 38
Setting Modes ........................................................................................... 40
Using the Clean Up Menu to Start a New Problem.............................. 43
Using the Catalog Dialog Box................................................................. 44
Storing and Recalling Variable Values................................................... 47
Reusing a Previous Entry or the Last Answer...................................... 49
Auto-Pasting an Entry or Answer from the History Area ................... 52
Status Line Indicators in the Display..................................................... 53
Finding the Software Version and ID Number ..................................... 55
Table of Contents
This guidebook describes how to use the TI - 89 / TI - 92 Plus . The
table of contents can help you locate "getting started"
information as well as detailed information about the
TI - 89 / TI - 92 Plus features. Appendix A provides one convenient
location to find details about every TI - 89 / TI - 92 Plus function
and instruction.
Chapter 1:
Getting Started
Chapter 2:
Operating the
Calculator