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Contents

 

 

Resetting Continuous Memory ........................................

63

Part II: HP-15C Programming ...............................

65

Section 6: Programming Basics ..................................

66

 

The Mechanics ...............................................................

66

 

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

66

 

Loading a Program ......................................................

66

 

Intermediate Program Stops ...........................................

68

 

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

68

 

How to Enter Data ........................................................

69

 

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

70

 

Further Information ..........................................................

74

 

Program Instructions .....................................................

74

 

Instruction Coding ........................................................

74

 

Memory Configuration ..................................................

75

 

Program Boundaries .....................................................

77

 

Unexpected Program Stops ...........................................

78

 

Abbreviated Key Sequences ..........................................

78

 

User Mode ..................................................................

79

 

Polynomial Expressions and Horner's Method ..................

79

 

Nonprogrammable Functions .........................................

80

 

Problems ........................................................................

81

Section 7: Program Editing ........................................

82

 

The Mechanics ...............................................................

82

 

Moving to a Line in Program Memory .............................

82

 

Deleting Program Lines .................................................

83

 

Inserting Program Lines .................................................

83

 

Examples .......................................................................

83

 

Further Information ..........................................................

85

 

Single-Step Operations .................................................

85

 

Line Position ................................................................

86

 

Insertions and Deletions ................................................

87

 

Initializing Calculator Status ..........................................

87

 

Problems ........................................................................

87

Section 8: Program Branching and Controls .................

90

 

The Mechanics ...............................................................

90

 

Branching ...................................................................

90

 

Conditional Tests ..........................................................

91