The Display - Texas Instruments TI-82 STATS Manual Book

The Display

Types of
Displays
Home Screen
Displaying
Entries and
Answers
Returning to the
Home Screen
Busy Indicator
1-4 Operating the TI-82 STATS
The TI-82 STATS displays both text and graphs. Chapter 3
describes graphs. Chapter 9 describes how the TI-82 STATS can
display a horizontally or vertically split screen to show graphs
and text simultaneously.
The home screen is the primary screen of the TI-82 STATS. On
this screen, enter instructions to execute and expressions to
evaluate. The answers are displayed on the same screen.
When text is displayed, the TI-82 STATS screen can display a
maximum of eight lines with a maximum of 16 characters per
line. If all lines of the display are full, text scrolls off the top of
the display. If an expression on the home screen, the
(Chapter 3), or the program editor (Chapter 16) is longer than
one line, it wraps to the beginning of the next line. In numeric
editors such as the window screen (Chapter 3), a long
expression scrolls to the right and left.
When an entry is executed on the home screen, the answer is
displayed on the right side of the next line.
The mode settings control the way the TI-82 STATS interprets
expressions and displays answers (page 1.9).
If an answer, such as a list or matrix, is too long to display
entirely on one line, an ellipsis (
left. Press ~ and | to scroll the answer.
To return to the home screen from any other screen, press y
[ ].
QUIT
When the TI-82 STATS is calculating or graphing, a vertical
moving line is displayed as a busy indicator in the top-right
corner of the screen. When you pause a graph or a program, the
busy indicator becomes a vertical moving dotted line.
Entry
Answer
) is displayed to the right or
...
Entry
Answer
editor
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