Author Topic: Undocumented TI-BASIC tricks (Read 83044 times)

dysfunction · « **Reply #105 on:** January 13, 2006, 12:38:00 pm »

That's very useful, thanks! I remember I was looking for something that would do that a while ago, but I don't remember exactly what for... but I'll remember that.

dragon__lance · « **Reply #106 on:** January 13, 2006, 04:05:00 pm »

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QUOTE (CDI @ 13 January 2006, 7:04)

my 2 cents...

int(log(#)+1 = How many digits the number is

example

Text(0,0,sub(" 00000000",1,8-int(log(S)+1)),S

will return an 8 digit number at 0,0 on the GS no matter what (if S's digits are less than

nice trick, i'll probably use it sometime >D

i may sound so noobish for asking this, but wat exactly is a memory leak? just when u use lables/ gotos and amount of free mem goes down?

kalan_vod · « **Reply #107 on:** January 13, 2006, 04:59:00 pm »

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QUOTE (dragon__lance @ 13 January 2006, 22:05)

QuoteBegin-CDI+13 January 2006, 7:04-->

QUOTE (CDI @ 13 January 2006, 7:04)

my 2 cents...

int(log(#)+1 = How many digits the number is

example

Text(0,0,sub(" 00000000",1,8-int(log(S)+1)),S

will return an 8 digit number at 0,0 on the GS no matter what (if S's digits are less than

nice trick, i'll probably use it sometime >D

i may sound so noobish for asking this, but wat exactly is a memory leak? just when u use lables/ gotos and amount of free mem goes down?

I seen this on maxcoderz before and is nice, a memory leak I believe is when you use a loop of some kind like while or repeat, then within the loop use an exit which isn't from the main loop.
c1

-->

CODE

ec1
Lbl 1
While K!=105
getkey->K
if Ans=21:Goto 1
endc2

ec2
This would give a bad memory leak (take up ram space I believe) if 2nd is pressed within the loop.

tifreak · « **Reply #108 on:** January 13, 2006, 05:32:00 pm »

A memory leak is when the calc encounters a command that requires an End statement, but never reaches it. The reason is it keeps track of how many Ends there should be, and that eats up memory...

Spellshaper · « **Reply #109 on:** January 14, 2006, 01:19:00 am »

got a question:

Is there a difference between int( and iPart( ?

cause it seems to me that they give the same reults...

CDI · « **Reply #110 on:** January 14, 2006, 02:16:00 am »

hmm... isn't int( for positive numbers? and iPart( for anything?

BCTurk · « **Reply #111 on:** January 14, 2006, 03:16:00 am »

CDI is correct.

MathStuf · « **Reply #112 on:** January 14, 2006, 06:56:00 am »

With the bases, here's one for the maximum number of digits in any base from any base (b is old base, n is old number, c is new base):
c1-->

CODE

ec1
iPart(dim(n)*ln(b)/ln(c)+1)
c2

ec2

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QUOTE (Spellshaper @ 14 January 2006, 7:19)

got a question:

Is there a difference between int( and iPart( ?

cause it seems to me that they give the same reults...

iPart( goes towards 0, int( goes to the next lowest integer.

CDI · « **Reply #113 on:** January 14, 2006, 09:41:00 am »

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QUOTE (MathStuf @ 14 January 2006, 13:56)

With the bases, here's one for the maximum number of digits in any base from any base (b is old base, n is old number, c is new base):
c1-->

CODE

ec1
iPart(dim(n)*ln(b)/ln(c)+1)
c2

ec2

so if I do iPart(dim(42)*ln(13)/ln(10)+1) what will that do again?

MathStuf · « **Reply #114 on:** January 14, 2006, 11:32:00 am »

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QUOTE (CDI @ 14 January 2006, 15:41)

QuoteBegin-MathStuf+14 January 2006, 13:56-->

QUOTE (MathStuf @ 14 January 2006, 13:56)

With the bases, here's one for the maximum number of digits in any base from any base (b is old base, n is old number, c is new base):
c1-->

CODE

ec1
iPart(dim(n)*ln(b)/ln(c)+1)
c2

ec2

so if I do iPart(dim(42)*ln(13)/ln(10)+1) what will that do again?

That will return the maximum amount of digits in base 10 that a 42 digit number in base 13 can take up (which is 47). But n should be either a string (change to length( in that case) or a list for dim( to work properly).

kalan_vod · « **Reply #115 on:** January 31, 2006, 08:07:00 am »

Thanks for the "please install xLIB first thing" I just used it in my MS clone.

Author Topic: Undocumented TI-BASIC tricks (Read 83044 times)

dysfunction

dragon__lance

CDI

BCTurk

MathStuf

CDI

MathStuf