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- From: b645zjo@utarlg.uta.edu (Rick Homard)
- Subject: Re: Hp48 and TI85 compared
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- In article <1992Aug20.023308.6024@unixg.ubc.ca>, ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth) writes...
-
- >>The TI85 supports all boolean operators. In addition there are commands
- >>which: rotate/shift right/left by one bit and conversion between bases.
- >>
- >>The HP48 supports all boolean operators, rotate/shift right/left of one
- >>bit/byte, setting wordsize, 1 bit arithmetic shift right.
- >
- >in case of confusion, the HP48 does support base conversion. (as long as
- >it is binary, octal, decimal, or hex) Does the TI85 do arbitrary bases?
- >
-
- I assumed that was a given. Indeed, the TI85 does support base conversion
- for the standard bases (ie: binary, octal, hex, and decimal).
-
-
-
- >>
- >>
- >>Solve Applications
- >>
- >>Both machines have solve applications. There is an unusual limitation
- >>on the TI85 solve application. It cannot find complex solutions,
- >>only real solutions. Not good.
- >
- >Incorrect! The HP48 solver application can't find complex solutions. If
- >an equation has a simple linear/quadratic form, you can use ISOL to find
- >complex solutions
- >
-
- I stand corrected on the HP48 not being able to find complex solutions.
- I never tried it out and assumed it could. (Never assume because...)
-
-
-
- >>Plotting and Graphing
- >>
- >>The TI85 plots a bit faster than the HP48.
- >>The TI85 has better and more zooming features.
- >
- >hmm, this needs explaining? How is one zoom better? How many ways can you
- >zoom and pan anyway?
- >>
-
- The boxed zooming is better because it creates a box for you to expand
- or compress so you can see exactly what you want to zoom in. Whereas
- the HP48 requires two opposite corners...and no box is explicitly drawn.
-
- There is also a feature which allows you to regraph the equation(s)
- using the previous range. This is nice if you want to zoom in on
- a different area.
-
- Here are all of the zooming commands:
- Box explained above
- Zin zoom in according to the "zoom factor" (ie: x2, x3,...)
- Zout zoom out
- Zstd standard graphing range.
- Zprev regraphs equation(s) using the previous range.
- Zfit same as AUTO on HP48. automatically finds suitable x,y ranges
- to fit the graph on the screen.
- Zsqr set aspect ratio to one.
- Ztrig set built in trig range variables (ie: x axis is divided into
- pi/24 increments.
- Zdecm sets x axis to .1 increments.
- Zrcl displays the range
- Zfact displays the multipling factors for Zin and Zout
- ZoomX zoom in the x axis and leave the y axis alone
- ZoomY zoom in the y axis and leave the x axis alone
- Zint sets x axis to integer value increments
- Zsto sets the user defined range values to the current values.
-
- Other features in the graphic environment:
- DIST finds the distance between two graph points.
- ARC finds the length of an arc given two points.
- TANLN draws a tangent line at any point on a curve.
-
-
-
- >>Unit Management
- >>
- >>Not supported on the TI85.
- >
- >I assume this means you can't define your own? Can you perform arithmetic
- >with units?
- >>
- TI doesn't call them units. Rather it is just simple conversion between
- units.
- And yes you can define your own unit conversions.
-
-
-
- >>Misc
- >>
- >>The TI85 can solve simultaneous equations (30 unknown maximum). Indeed
- >>the HP48 can do this also but it does not have a user interface to do it
- >>from. A nice feature but slow when solving anything larger than 15 unknowns.
- >
- >Simultaneous Linear equations? The HP48 can solve these, and more that 30 too.
- >(assuming memory permits)
- >>
- No doubt but if you are doing work of this magnitude, you really need to
- use at least a personal computer
-
- >>I compared the TI85's root finder with the HP48 (using the root finding
- >>program supplied by Bill Wickes on the net). The results are incredible.
- >>The same 30th order polynomial was input to each machine. The HP48 found
- >>all of the roots in 80 seconds. I stopped the TI85 after 15 minutes.
- >>It is obvious that the TI85 gets heavily labored when required to perform
- >>at its limits.
- >
- >Can the TI85 find roots of complex polynomials? Wickes can't, but with a
- >little trick (any Wayne`s POLY utils) it can.
- >>
-
- The TI85 can find roots of complex polynomials. I just tried it and
- it does work like a charm.
-
-
- >>The TI85 has an interpolation environment. You provide two known pairs
- >>of data ( (x1,y1) and (x2,y2) ) and one known, either x or y and it will
- >>calculate the unknown.
- >
- >This has an equivalent in the STATs menu. (with linear regression)
- >>
-
- You are correct. However, I was just stating that this was a feature.
-
-
- >>The TI85 performs some fudging (rounding, et al) on calculations.
- >>
- >>Examples:
- >>
- >>0.333333333333 * 3 = 1
- >>and
- >>sin (3.14159265359) = 0
- >
- >If I remember TI, they don't really round the answer, they just display
- >part of the answer (ie the first 12 digits, and the 13 and 14 are kept
- >internally). Sort of like the HP with 10 FIX on all the time, but trailing
- >zeros aren't displayed.
-
- This is still "fudging" notheless. Regardless of how many decimal places
- you take .33333333 , when you multiply it by 3 you get .999999999 to the
- same number of decimal places.
- Also sin(3.14159265359) is a small number but not zero. The sin(pi)
- is zero but 3.14159265359 is not pi.
-
- >>The TI85 also performs numerical integration and differentiation in the
- >>graphical environment.
- >
- >How fast is it? Does it return an error estimate? I had a TI56 that did
- >Simpson's rule, and it was SLOW. When it finished you had NO CLUE whether
- >the answer is meaningful. The HP uses an adaptive algorithm which will
- >usually return usefull results to an integral, and give you a good idea
- >whether the numerical result is close, or way off.
-
- It is fast and it returns an error estimate in a variable, just like
- the HP48. As what method it uses I do not know.
-
-
-
- >Is there any way to "get inside" the TI85? I mean software wise. A lot
- >of power in the HP48 comes from being able to add low level machine language
- >programs that blow away any user level program. For example, the recent ML
- >FFT is blindingly fast, and it can't be done quickly in user code.
- >
- I do not know. I have only had it for about a week now.
-
-
-
- That's all.
-
- Rick Homard
-
-