HP Prime

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(08-30-2014 04:51 PM)gbh Wrote:  Yes, this works.

Could I have figured this out from the (wholly inadequate) manual? I doubt it. I can find no mention of enclosing variables in single quotes, in the chapter (22) on Variables, or elsewhere. Just to be sure I searched the entire manual PDF in Acrobat.

Just to be definite, the manual is a joke. Many important topics are not covered or even mentioned, and many of those that are covered are not in the skimpy index.

Thanks for your help.

It is impossible to write a manual for everyone or every situation. Thompson Learning, now Cengage, contracted me to write a Guide for 26 of their Intermediate Algebra, College Algebra and Trigonometry, and Precalculus textbooks for traditional solutions plus TI 83/84, TI 85/86, TI89/TI92+/Voyager 200 solutions and by the way we would like some Excel examples. The Guide was found as part of the CD that accompanied their textbook. I had just written Thompson Learning’s TI calculator Guide and WebCT/Blackboard course packs for each book in Tan’s series of Finite Math and Applied Calculus textbooks.

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