Keys:

Display:

Description:

123

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Digit entry not terminated: the number

 

 

is not complete.

If you execute a function to calculate a result, the cursor disappears because the number is complete — digit entry has been terminated.

#

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Digit entry is terminated.

Pressing ‘terminates digit entry. To separate two numbers, key in the first number, press ‘to terminate digit, entry, and then key in the second number

123 ‘ )

A completed number.

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Another completed number.

If digit entry is not terminated (if the cursor is present), bbackspaces to erase the last digit. If digit entry is terminated (no cursor), bacts like ‡and clears the entire number. Try it!

Range of Numbers and OVERFLOW

The smallest number available on the calculator is 1 10–499. The largest number is 9.99999999999 10499 (displayed as ) because of rounding).

„If a calculation produces a result that exceeds the largest possible number, 9.99999999999 10499 is returned, and the warning message

#$ appears.

„If a calculation produces a result smaller that the smallest possible number, zero is returned. No warning message appears.

Doing Arithmetic

All operands (numbers) must be present before you press a function key. (When you press a function key, the calculator immediately executes the function shown on that key.)

All calculations can be simplified into one–number functions and/or two–number functions.

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