Introduction:
This tutorial should be a pretty short one. There is not that much information or examples to show concerning how to display fractions and decimals on the home screen. As you most likely know, all non-integer answers come out as decimals on the calculator. However, this is a command that can display that rational number as a fraction.

New Commands:

Frac	Displays a value as a fraction in its simplest form
Dec	Displays a value in decimal form

valueFrac

valueDec

The Codes:
There will be just one, which will show all the usages of both Frac and Dec. Just in case you did not read it in either of the commands further definitions, you cannot use either command with Text( or Output(, but only with Disp.

:	For AShell, SOS, and TI-Explorer
ClrHome	Clears the home screen
.625A:2/7B	Stores A as 0.625 and B as 2 divided by 7
Output(1,3,"AS DECIMALS:	Displays "AS DECIMALS:" centered on the top line
Output(3,1,"A=	Displays "A=" on third line
Output(3,4,A	Displays the value of A
Output(4,1,"B=	Displays "B=" on third line
Output(4,4,B	Displays the value of B
Output(5,1,"A+B=	Displays "A+B=" on third line
A+BC	Stores C as the value of A plus the value of B
Output(5,6,C	Displays the value of C (A+B)
Output(6,1,"A-B=	Displays "A-B=" on third line
A-BD	Stores D as the value of A minus the value of B
Output(6,6,D	Displays the value of D (A-B)
Output(7,1,"B-A=	Displays "B-A=" on third line
B-AE	Stores E as the value of B minus the value of A
Output(7,6,E	Displays the value of E (B-A)
Output(8,1,"A*B=	Displays "A*B=" on third line
ABF	Stores F as the value of A multiplied by the value of B
Output(8,6,F	Displays the value of F (A*B)
Pause	Suspends program and waits for use to press
ClrHome	Clears the home screen
Disp "","A=",AFrac	Displays a blank line, "A=", and the value of A as a fraction
Disp "B=",BFrac	Displays "B=" and the value of B as a fraction
Disp "A+B=",CFrac	Displays "A+B=" and the value of C (A+B) as a fraction
Output(1,3,"AS FRACTIONS	Displays "AS FRACTIONS" centered on the top line
Pause	Suspends program and waits for use to press
ClrHome	Clears the home screen
Disp "A-B=",DFrac	Displays "A-B=" and the value of D (A-B) as a fraction
Disp "B-A=",EFrac	Displays "B-A=" and the value of E (B-A) as a fraction
Disp "A*B=",FFrac	Displays "A*B=" and the value of F (A*B) as a fraction
Pause	Suspends program and waits for use to press
ClrHome	Clears the home screen
Disp (1/3)+(7/13)Frac	Displays the value 1/3 plus 7/13 as a fraction
Disp AnsDec	Displays the value of last answer (a decimal)

press press press

Well, there is actually very little to explain here. It is pretty easy to understand the concepts behind Frac and Dec. In the first part of the code, the values are displayed in decimal form, just like you normally would have done in any program. In the second and third part, those values are now turned into fractional values and then displayed. Once again, we cannot use Frac or Dec with Output(. Showing you a good example of how to use Dec is really hard, because there is never really a good to do that because the calculator already does. In the fourth part of the program, I showed you how to use it, but you could have easily just left Dec out and the output would have been the exact same.

Conclusion:
This tutorial probably did not help you in anyway improve you game programming skills, but it might help you when you want to make some sort of math or science related program. For instance, if you are making a quadratic factoring program, rational answers are usually written in fractions when it is done with pencil and paper. To simulate an exact answer that you would get with pencil and paper on the calculator, it is best to change the resulting values into fractions. The next tutorial and the one following that continue with the math theme, showing you all the major math commands.

If you do not understand a particular part in this lesson, have suggestions, or find any problems please contact me.

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