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DOFT
Newbie (Posts: 10)

Simple Syntax Error
17 Jan 2018 05:04:56 pm

Guys i don't know what I did wrong. I think i just formatted it incorrectly. Basically, I'm trying to make a program that can solve quadratic equations, but one that doesn't need to worry about imaginary numbers. So, It just simplifies the discriminant.

Code:

Prompt A,B,C


Output(9,1,-B


Output(9,3,"(+-)"


Output(9,7,"√("


Output(9,10,(B²)-4AC


Output(9,14,"/


Output(9,15,2A


End


Return

iPhoenix
3
hi (Posts: 1847)

17 Jan 2018 05:07:01 pm

The problem is the End statement.

That is used exclusively for If-Then-End blocks, as well as For loops, While loops, etc.

You also don't need the Return statement, though that would not cause an error.

Your code would look like this:

Code:

Prompt A,B,C


Output(9,1,-B


Output(9,3,"(+-)


Output(9,7,"√(


Output(9,10,(B²)-4AC


Output(9,14,"/


Output(9,15,2A

DOFT
Newbie (Posts: 10)

17 Jan 2018 05:15:35 pm

_iPhoenix_ wrote:

The problem is the End statement.

That is used exclusively for If-Then-End blocks, as well as For loops, While loops, etc.

You also don't need the Return statement, though that would not cause an error.

Your code would look like this:

Code:

Prompt A,B,C


Output(9,1,-B


Output(9,3,"(+-)


Output(9,7,"√(


Output(9,10,(B²)-4AC


Output(9,14,"/


Output(9,15,2A

Wow, thanks for the quick reply. I applied your fix, but it stills said ERROR: SYNTAX. Then, I realized that the negative sign was weirdly too big and it turned out it was a subtraction sign. I used TIConnect CE and made sure that i didn't mess up negatives and subtraction signs. Do you know if while transfering the files the calculator confuses the two?

TheLastMillennial
2
Official Cemetech Cake Manager (Posts: 1982)

17 Jan 2018 05:18:58 pm

No, the - button on the keyboard is only recognized as the minus symbol, you need to click the 'Keypad' button on TI-Connect CE to find the negative symbol.

SM84CE
1
Super-Expert (Posts: 768)

17 Jan 2018 05:24:44 pm

Or use the "~" for the negation/ negative and "-" as minus on SC ( https://www.cemetech.net/sc/ )

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