Terry Jones (of Monty Python’s Flying Circus) goes on a humor-filled journey to recount the amazing tale behind the world’s simplest number. Using computer graphics, “One” is brought to life, in all his various guises. One’s story reveals how celebrated civilizations in history were achieved, where our modern numbers came from and how the invention of zero changed the world forever; and saved us from having to use Roman numerals today.
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On your TI83 press WINDOW and set the values to the following:
Press 2ND then ZOOM (FORMAT)
Highlight AxesOff and press enter.
Enter the following equations on your graphic (or graphing software)
To get abs(x) press 2ND then 0 (zero) then ENTER (as it is first in the list).
Now press GRAPH
Remember to reset the axes after you are done!
H tends to zero 