TI Nspire graph Question

[Joe Horn]

(12-28-2019 05:07 AM)lrdheat Wrote:  ...if I take the result for TAN (-.6) and raise it to the result of SIN (-.6), a non complex result comes up. However, if I type in TAN(-.6)^SIN(-.6), I get a complex result!

Not really. The algebraic "order of operations" demands that powers are done before leading negative signs (see the bottom two entries in the screen shot below). Try putting the result of TAN(-.6) in parentheses before raising it to the power, and you'll see the complex result you're expecting, like this: