Texas Instruments TINSPIRE Manual Book page 709

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Loop and loop-related commands reside on the Program Editor's

When you insert one of the loop structures, its template is inserted at the

cursor location. You can then begin entering the commands that will be

executed within the loop.

For...EndFor loops

loop uses a counter to control the number of times the

For...EndFor

loop is repeated. The syntax of the

Note: The ending value can be less than the beginning value, provided

the increment is negative.

, begin , end [, increment ]

Variable used as a counter

Counter value used the first time

Exits the loop when variable exceeds this value

Added to the counter each subsequent time

optional value is omitted, the increment is 1.)

is executed, the variable value is compared to the end value. If

variable does not exceed end, the loop is executed; otherwise, control

jumps to the command following

command automatically increments the counter variable

so that the function or program can exit the loop after a certain number

of repetitions.

At the end of the loop (

where the variable is incremented and compared to

For example:

), control jumps back to the

is executed (If this