Contents

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Section 15: Savings ..........................................................

213

Nominal Rate Converted to Effective Rate ......................................

213

Effective Rate Converted to Nominal Rate ......................................

215

Continuous Rate Converted to Effective Rate...................................

216

Section 16: Bonds .............................................................

 

217

30/360 Day Basis Bonds ...........................................................

 

217

Annual Coupon Bonds ................................................................

 

222

Appendices

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227

Appendix A: RPN and the Stack

...................................

228

Getting Numbers Into the Stack: TheKey

..............................229

Termination of Digit Entry .....................................................

 

230

Stack Lift.............................................................................

 

230

Rearranging Numbers in the Stack ...............................................

 

230

The

Key .....................................................................

 

230

The

Key .......................................................................

 

230

One-Number Functions and the Stack ...........................................

231

Two-Number Functions and the Stack............................................

231

Mathematics Functions .........................................................

 

231

Percentage Functions............................................................

 

232

Calendar and Financial Functions.................................................

 

233

The LAST X Register and the

Key .........................................

234

Chain Calculations in RPN Mode .................................................

 

234

Arithmetic Calculations with Constants ..........................................

235

Appendix B: Algebraic Mode (ALG)..............................

237

Simple Arithmetic Calculations in ALG Mode .................................

237

Keying in Negative Numbers (

) .............................................

238

Chain Calculations in ALG Mode .................................................

 

238

The

Key in ALG Mode .......................................................

 

239

The History Stack in ALG Mode....................................................

 

239

Parentheses Calculations .............................................................

 

240

Percentage Functions...................................................................

 

241

Percent Difference ................................................................

 

241

Percent of Total....................................................................

 

242

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

 

242

Appendix C: More About L......................................

 

243

Appendix D: Error Conditions ......................................

 

245

Error 0: Mathematics ..................................................................

 

245

Error 1: Storage Register Overflow ...............................................

 

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