Contents

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Section 6:Statistics Functions........................................

76

Accumulating Statistics..................................................................

76

Correcting Accumulated Statistics ...................................................

77

Mean .........................................................................................

77

Standard Deviation.......................................................................

79

Linear Estimation ..........................................................................

80

Weighted Mean...........................................................................

81

Section 7: Mathematics and Number-Alteration Functions 83

One-Number Functions .................................................................

83

The Power Function .......................................................................

85

Part II. Programming .............................................

87

Section 8:Programming Basics .....................................

88

Why Use Programs?.....................................................................

88

Creating a Program......................................................................

88

Running a Program.......................................................................

89

Program Memory .........................................................................

90

Identifying Instructions in Program Lines ....................................

91

Displaying Program Lines........................................................

92

The

00 Instruction and Program Line 00 ............................

93

Expanding Program Memory ..................................................

94

Setting the Calculator to a Particular Program Line .....................

95

Executing a Program One Line at a Time .........................................

96

Interrupting Program Execution.......................................................

97

Pausing During Program Execution...........................................

97

Stopping Program Execution .................................................

101

Section 9:Branching and Looping ...............................

103

Simple Branching .......................................................................

103

Looping

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104

Conditional Branching ................................................................

107

Section 10: Program Editing .........................................

113

Changing the Instruction in a Program Line....................................

113

Adding Instructions at the End of a Program ..................................

114

Adding Instructions Within a Program...........................................

115

Adding Instructions by Replacement .......................................

115

Adding Instructions by Branching...........................................

116

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