How to Use a Graphing Calculator as a Phone Book
A graphing calculator is a must have for students, especially those taking advanced trigonometry or algebra. A graphing calculator can help you do math in record time. It can also be used to do cool things, such as store information and phone numbers. Here's how you can program a phone book into your graphing calculator.
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Decide whether you will try to download a phone book program onto your graphing calculator or if you want just to add in information. If you have a Texas Instrument TI-85 graphing calculator, you can download a phone book from "Fortunecity."
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Look through your graphing calculator user manual to determine how to save and store information on your particular graphing calculator type.
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Write a program. On your graphing calculator, starting a new program may be as easy as opening and saving a new file. This file will be your phone book. Open sub-files within it. Each of these sub-files will be an entry in your phone book.
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Begin typing in your friends' names, addresses and phone numbers. You could include other important information, such as birthdays, too.
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Save each piece of information after you input it. You can always go back and edit misspellings later.
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Open up the saved file and search for your friends' contact information. You may have to scroll for a while to get to the right person.
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Tips & Warnings
Keep your phone book separate from your school work. You can do this by making your entire phone book into one program and having each of the names and addresses subprograms in that file.
