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Example: Keep a running count of your newly blooming crocuses for two more days.

Keystrokes

Display

8 O0

8.0000

4 O +0

4.0000

3 O +0

3.0000

24 l-0

9.0000

l0

15.0000

Places the total number of blooms as of day 2 in R0.

Day 3: adds four new blooms to those already blooming.

Day 4: adds three new blooms.

Subtracts total number of blooms summed in R0(15) from the total number of plants (24); 9 crocuses have not bloomed.

(The number in R0 does not change.)

Overflow and Underflow

If an attempted storage or recall arithmetic operation would result in overflow in a data storage register, the value in the affected register will be replaced with ±9.999999999×1099 and the display will blink. To stop the blinking (clear the overflow condition), press or =or "9.

In case of underflow, the value in the register will be replaced with zero (no display blinking). Overflow and underflow are discussed further on page 61.

Problems

1.Calculate the value of x in the following equation.

x =

8.33(4 − 5.2) ÷ [(8.33 − 7.46)0.32]

4.3 (3.15 − 2.75) − (1.71)(2.01)

Answer: 4.5728.

A possible keystroke solution is:

4 v 5.2 - 8.33 * K 7.46 - 0.32 * ÷ 3.15 v 2.75 - 4.3 * 1.71 v 2.01 * - ÷ ¤

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HP 15c Scientific manual Problems, Overflow and Underflow, 24 l-0, 15.0000