Texas TI-86 Manual De Usuario

00QWIKST.DOC   TI-86, Quick Start, US English   Bob Fedorisko   Revised: 02/13/01 1:51 PM   Printed: 02/13/01 2:59 PM   Page 8 of 14

�   Retrieve the last entry from the previous

example. (The last activity was not cleared.)

- ¢

�   Edit the retrieved entry.

! ! 

�   Evaluate. The first derivative of 

 with

respect to 

 at 

 is displayed.

b

�   Display the 

CONV

 menu.

(:) - ’

�   Display the 

CONV

 

TEMP

 menu. The 

CONV

menu shifts up and 

 is highlighted.

*

�   Enter the known measurement. If the

measurement is negative, use parentheses.
In this example, if you omit parentheses,
the TI

-86 converts 4¡F to about 

15.5

¡C,

which it then negates (changes the sign
of), returning a positive 15.5

¡C.

D a 

 E

�   Select 

 to designate Fahrenheit as the

known measurement unit. 

 and the

conversion symbol ( 

4 ) are displayed after

the measurement.                      (continued)

'

When you press 

b

, the

TI

-

86 stores the expression

or instruction you entered to
the built-in memory storage
area called 

ENTRY

.

When expressing a
measurement for a
conversion, you do not enter
a unit symbol manually. For
example, you need not enter

¡

 to designate degrees.