Programming on a TI-84

This is an old page I made back in high school
showcasing the stuff I did while bored in math class.

Calculating Pi

First I tried the Gregory-Leibniz series. Because I was already iterating the sequence at least a thousand times and it still wasn't very accurate, I switched to the Nilakantha series.

You can see how much closer the calculated value got after the switch.

The program looks like this:

And there you go. Not too complicated...

The Fibonacci Series

I made a simple program to calculate the Fibonacci series.

The most absurd way to write "1"

I spent a great deal of time fussing around with my calculator in 11th grade math. Among other things, I was on a quest to find the longest possible non-repetative expression that simplified to 1, while not containing any digits.

I recorded my farthest progress on a slip of paper, but since 11th grade, I have lost that paper. I'm pretty sure it's somewhere in the house. If I find it, I will post its contents. If not, I will attempt to recreate something like my expression as well as I can from memory.

I know it all started with -e^πi...