A program on a TI82 that gives the
derivative of a monomial, by
Thomas, an 8th
grader
.
Thomas had worked on finding slope of straight lines then did some
slopes of curves with Don (see chapter 14). He came up with this without
any suggestion from Don. :ClrHome
:Disp "Welcome to the ","
Derivativs Prog"
:ClrHome
:Disp "Enter the","Coefficient of
x"
:Input Y
:ClrHome
:Disp"Enter the power","of x"
:Input
Z
:ClrHome
:Disp"The Derivative","of your
function"
:Pause
:Disp (Y*Z),"--------------x^",(Z-1)
:Stop
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