TI-83 BASIC Programs... anyone good at them?

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Has anyone here tried to create their own programs using the TI-83 calculator's BASIC system? I do this regularly to help with my Calculus class, I have so many now that I have to keep some in Archive Memory for the calculator. Here's a sample that you math whizzes can use. It's a program to help expand binomials, it makes use of Pascal's Triangle and the Binomial theorem. Here's the code:

(Note: The syntax for lists is impossible to replicate on the computer, so I've used the notation L. instead. For the actual caluclator program, go to the LIST:OPS menu and scroll down to the last item (shaped like a subscript L.). Press Enter to insert into the program.

This program takes the coefficients of a binomial of the form (Ax^C + By^D)^N and returns a list containing the coefficients of the expanded binomial. You enter the coefficents (A & B) the exponents of each item (C & D), and the binomial exponent (N). Then, using the sequence function and the nCr function, the program recreates row N of Pascal's Triangle and saves it to a list. Finally, it follows the binomial theroem and multiplies this list by the coefficents A & B to the power of C & D to the power of M and N-M. The result is a list N+1 units long with each unit corresponding to a coefficient.

Try it out and see what you think!

I never did much in TI BASIC. I think all I had of interest was a quadratic equation solver and a program to find the determinant of 3x3 matrices. Really rudimentary stuff.

That's funny.



The last calculator I messed with programming stuff was the TI-82 and that was many moons ago.

ROFL, nice...