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Calculator Problem

  • 19-10-2013 3:20pm
    #1
    Gandalph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭


    Hi guys, I've got a super sophisticated Math problem here for you. I am using a scientific calculator (Casio fx-83GT PLUS) and I want to know how to get it to give me precise numbers instead of estimates. For example if I put in the fraction 8/9 it tells me it is simply 0.8, I am looking for it to display 0.888888....I mean it's not a huge problem but can be when I am trying to get 2 long equations to try and equal one another.


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  • #2
    Gru
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,157 ✭✭✭Gru


    Inside the cover of it there should be a guide of how to reset it to starting conditions, if not try selecting sci in mode or trying some of the options in there, I don't have a calculator to hand to check it out.


  • #3
    TheBody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,634 ✭✭✭TheBody


    Here is the manual for your calculator:

    http://office.manualsonline.com/manuals/mfg/casio/fx83gt_plus.html?idRes=16451168


  • #4
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,091 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I have a different Casio, but on mine you use the S<=>D button.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #5
    platypus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 372 ✭✭platypus


    Gandalph wrote: »
    Hi guys, I've got a super sophisticated Math problem here for you. I am using a scientific calculator (Casio fx-83GT PLUS) and I want to know how to get it to give me precise numbers instead of estimates. For example if I put in the fraction 8/9 it tells me it is simply 0.8, I am looking for it to display 0.888888....I mean it's not a huge problem but can be when I am trying to get 2 long equations to try and equal one another.

    The Casio calculator usually gives you 8/9 = 0.8 with a dot over the 8, which means 0.8888888888......, if its the calculator I think it is.


  • #6
    lucast2007us
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭lucast2007us


    Be thankful! In my day we used abacuses!


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  • #7
    lucast2007us
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭lucast2007us


    Be thankful! In my day we used abacuses!


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