Calculator User Manual

TI-83 Plus Applications 463
P/Y and C/Y
P/Y
is the number of payment periods per year in a financial transaction.
C/Y
is the number of compounding periods per year in the same
transaction.
When you store a value to
P/Y
, the value for
C/Y
automatically changes
to the same value. To store a unique value to
C/Y
, you must store the
value to
C/Y
after you have stored a value to
P/Y
.