User's Manual

16-18 Programming
8316PROG.DOC TI-83 international English Bob Fedorisko Revised: 02/19/01 1:23 PM Printed: 02/19/01 1:39
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During program execution, Prompt displays each
variable
,
one at a time, followed by
=?. At each prompt, enter a
value or expression for each
variable
, and then press
Í
. The values are stored, and the program resumes
execution.
Prompt
variableA
[,
variableB
,...,
variable n
]
Program Output
Note:
Y= functions are not valid with
Prompt
.
Disp (display) without a value displays the home screen.
To view the home screen during program execution, follow
the
Disp instruction with a Pause instruction.
Disp
Disp
with one or more
values
displays the value of each.
Disp [
valueA
,
valueB
,
valueC
,...,
value n
]
•
If
value
is a variable, the current value is displayed.
•
If
value
is an expression, it is evaluated and the result is
displayed on the right side of the next line.
•
If
value
is text within quotation marks, it is displayed on
the left side of the current display line.
!
is not valid as
text.
Program Output
If Pause is encountered after Disp, the program halts
temporarily so you can examine the screen. To resume
execution, press
Í
.
Note:
If a matrix or list is too large to display in its entirety, ellipses (
...
)
are displayed in the last column, but the matrix or list cannot be
scrolled. To scroll, use
Pause
value
(page 16
.
12).
Prompt
Displaying the
Home Screen
Displaying
Values and
Messages