7 Mar
2014
7 Mar
'14
10:57 a.m.
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 06:08:28PM -0800, Mark H. Harris wrote:
If you write a number on paper do you write down '2.01' ? Do you write down d(2.01) ? Do you write down 2.01d ?
Sometimes I write down 2.01 subscript 10. That's just a different way of spelling 2.01d. (That's the trouble with rhetorical questions. Sometimes people will give an answer other than what you were expecting.)
(or) do you write down 2.01 ?
When you punch a number into your TI89 do you punch in {'} {2} {.} {0} {1} {'} ? (or) do you punch in {2} {.} {0} {1} ?
For what it's worth, the TI-89 stores numbers using a decimal floating point format. -- Steven