The importance of mode settings
Example: Multiply 2/3 Q 2.
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Your first reaction to this example is that the graphing calculator has
produced a wrong answer. But you have set it to round to 0 decimal
places (the nearest whole number), so for this setting the answer is
correct. If you set rounding (decimals displayed) to 0 and then forget to
reset it for later calculations, you may be surprised by some of your
answers! With mode set to the default setting of Float, the result will be:
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