Texas Instruments TI36X User Manual - Page 28

Error Conditions

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Error Conditions When Error appears in the display, the calculator will not accept a keyboard entry until you press ' to clear the error condition. (' ' clears the condition and all pending operations.) General errors ¦ Result larger than ±9.999999999 Q 1099. ¦ Division by zero. ¦ More than 15 open parentheses or 4 pending operations (1 in STAT). ¦ Log, ln, or 1/x of 0. ¦ Log, ln, or ‡x of x < 0. ¦ Even root of a negative number. ¦ 0 to the 0th power, or 0th root of any number. ¦ Rectangular to polar when x or y has an exponent > 63. ¦ Tan of x = 90¡, -90¡, 270¡, -270¡, 450¡, etc. ¦ Sin-1 or cos-1 of x where |x| > 1. ¦ Tanh-1 of x where |x| | 1. ¦ x! where x is not a positive integer { 69. ¦ Combinations or permutations when n and r are not positive integers. 27

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Error Conditions
When
Error
appears in the display, the calculator will
not accept a keyboard entry until you press
'
to
clear the error condition. (
'
'
clears the
condition and all pending operations.)
General errors
¦
Result larger than ±9.999999999
Q
10
99
.
¦
Division by zero.
¦
More than 15 open parentheses or 4 pending
operations (1 in
STAT
).
¦
Log, ln, or 1/x of 0.
¦
Log, ln, or
x of
x
< 0.
¦
Even root of a negative number.
¦
0 to the 0th power, or 0th root of any number.
¦
Rectangular to polar when
x
or
y
has an
exponent > 63.
¦
Tan of
x
= 90
¡
,
-
90
¡
, 270
¡
,
-
270
¡
, 450
¡
, etc.
¦
Sin
-
1
or cos
-
1
of x where |
x
| > 1.
¦
Tanh
-
1
of x where |
x
|
|
1.
¦
x! where
x
is not a positive integer
{
69.
¦
Combinations or permutations when
n
and
r
are
not positive integers.