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Jim Wysocki

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Jan 29, 2009, 4:18:05 PM1/29/09
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I have looked through the posts, but I have not seen this - forgive me
if someone has mentioned it already. I wrote a program for my students
to use on the Nspire-CAS, and I know it can be accessed from the
calculator screen by typing

programs\<file_name>.

But I cannot find the backslash symbol anywhere on the calculator.
Does anyone know? Thanks!

Jim Wysocki
Chadwick School
PVP, CA

Sean Bird

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Jan 29, 2009, 4:31:40 PM1/29/09
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It is under the symbols (CTRL+Catalog). It is way toward the bottom after special super and subscripts.

I would tend to use Catalog > Library (that is 5 or 6 depending if you have CAS) to recall the name of the program.

What program are you using?

Sean Bird
Indianapolis, IN
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Nelson Sousa

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Jan 29, 2009, 5:10:08 PM1/29/09
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yes, I also prefer to use the catalog and select the function or program from the Library tab.

Or use the libshortcut function to create a shortcut for a given library, avoiding the backslash character (that is a real pain to reach everytime).

Nelson

Jim Wysocki

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Jan 29, 2009, 5:30:36 PM1/29/09
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Weird - I was sure that I had looked there. I agree about the Catolog > Library, but it would have  detracted from a test the kids were taking to explain it.

I wrote an Euler's method program that I had installed on the calculators for my students.

Jim

Pat Flynn

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Jan 29, 2009, 8:46:02 PM1/29/09
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jIM,

Would you mind posting your Euler program?

On Jan 29, 4:30 pm, Jim Wysocki <jimwysock...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Weird - I was sure that I had looked there. I agree about the Catolog >
> Library, but it would have  detracted from a test the kids were taking to
> explain it.
> I wrote an Euler's method program that I had installed on the calculators
> for my students.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Sean Bird <covenantb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > \
> > It is under the symbols (CTRL+Catalog). It is way toward the bottom after
> > special super and subscripts.
>
> > I would tend to use Catalog > Library (that is 5 or 6 depending if you have
> > CAS) to recall the name of the program.
>
> > What program are you using?
>
> > Sean Bird
> > Indianapolis, IN
> > blog <http://bird-godlydominion.blogspot.com/>
>
> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Jim Wysocki <jimwysock...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >> I have looked through the posts, but I have not seen this - forgive me
> >> if someone has mentioned it already. I wrote a program for my students
> >> to use on the Nspire-CAS, and I know it can be accessed from the
> >> calculator screen by typing
>
> >> programs\<file_name>.
>
> >> But I cannot find the backslash symbol anywhere on the calculator.
> >> Does anyone know? Thanks!
>
> >> Jim Wysocki
> >> Chadwick School
> >> PVP, CA- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Jim Wysocki

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Jan 29, 2009, 10:46:45 PM1/29/09
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I posted it as Euler.tns in the files. It is nothing fancy, but does
the trick.

To work it first you have to type "Define d(x,y) =" and then whatever
dy/dx is equal to. Then, the syntax for running the program is:

eulert(x0, y0, step-size, # steps).

Jim

Bird

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Feb 20, 2009, 10:25:33 PM2/20/09
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There is a shortcut to backslash on the handheld.
Press SHIFT and DIVISION

Shift is sometimes referred to as CAPS. So it would be [CAPS] [÷]

Good question. You figured it had to be easily accessible there
somewhere.

The only other shortcut I know that is activated by SHIFT is the
derivative and integral by pressing MINUS and PLUS.

Enjoy,
Sean Bird
Covenant Christian High School

Nelson Sousa

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Feb 21, 2009, 3:07:58 AM2/21/09
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don't forget about Shift+Esc and Shift+Tab! 

Ctrl+Esc will undo, Shift+Esc will Redo.
Tab navigates forward on a selection box for instance, Shift+Tab navigates backwards.

Nelson

matin

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Mar 2, 2009, 1:31:59 PM3/2/09
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dose any one have laplace program for ti ncspire cas
please help me thanks


--- On Thu, 1/29/09, Pat Flynn <pfl...@kc.rr.com> wrote:

matin

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Mar 2, 2009, 1:32:02 PM3/2/09
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dose any one have laplace program for ti ncspire cas
please help me thanks


--- On Thu, 1/29/09, Pat Flynn <pfl...@kc.rr.com> wrote:

> From: Pat Flynn <pfl...@kc.rr.com>
> Subject: [tinspire] Re: backslash key
> To: "tinspire" <tins...@googlegroups.com>
> Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009, 5:46 PM

Nelson Sousa

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Mar 2, 2009, 2:30:12 PM3/2/09
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By simply taking the definition you can define it easily:

define laplace(f,t,s)=int( f*e^(-s*t),t, 0,infinity) | s>0

Nspire CAS is able to compute the laplace transforms of functions such
as polinomials, sine, cosine, and rational functions. It's not very
powerful, but it's allready something. To get a more powerfull laplace
transform function one has to think a little bit more about the
convergence domains of the transform and about manipulating adequately
the integrals.

If you want to use always t as the integration variable and s as the
transform variable you can omit those two arguments, although I
wouldn't reccommend it.

Nelson
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