Executing a program – Texas Instruments TI-84 User Manual

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While in the program editor, you can display and select from menus. You can return to
the program editor from a menu in either of two ways.

Select a menu item, which pastes the item to the current command line.

Press

‘.

When you complete a command line, press

Í. The cursor moves to the next

command line.

Programs can access variables, lists, matrices, and strings saved in memory. If a
program stores a new value to a variable, list, matrix, or string, the program changes the
value in memory during execution.

You can call another program as a subroutine.

Executing a Program

Executing a Program

Executing a Program

Executing a Program

To execute a program, begin on a blank line on the home screen and follow these steps.

1.

Press

 to display the

PRGM EXEC

menu.

2.

Select a program name from the

PRGM EXEC

menu.

prgmname

is pasted to the home

screen (for example,

prgmCYLINDER

).

3.

Press

Í to execute the program. While the program is executing, the busy

indicator is on.

Last Answer (

Ans

) is updated during program execution. Last Entry is not updated as

each command is executed (Chapter 1).

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