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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