andle rectilinear, polar and vector plotting. After plotting, you may review a tabulation of all plotted points (except for the vector program). These programs were written in BASICA to take advantage of a unique BASICA capability - the CHAIN MERGE feature. When you enter an equation to be plotted, you may enter it just as you would write it on paper. The program accepts your equation as a string variable, appends your equation to a string that defines a line number then writes the whole string to a file (FCT1.BAS for example). This file is then CHAIN MERGED with the program itself and your equation becomes an executable line of code, complete with a line number in the program. Unfortunately, existing compilers can not compile the CHAIN MERGE statement. We felt that being able to enter the equation in standard equation format was so important that we have released these programs in BASICA. No other language that we know of allows a chain-merge-like function and writing the function in another language would be a formidable task. Chalk one up for BASIC! Although not extremely fast, we think that you will find the plotting speed of these programs satisfactory. SPECIAL NOTE: Because of the technique mentioned above, you will render these pro