Example

Display the complex number 3+4i in each of the different formats.

Keys:Display:

9() 6 

8

() 8

() or θ

8××Õ

Description:

Enable ALG mode

Enter the complex number. It displays as 3i4, the default format.

Change to x+yi format.

Change to rθ a format. The radius is 5 and the angle is approximately 53.13°.

SHOWing Full 12–Digit Precision

Changing the number of displayed decimal places affects what you see, but it does not affect the internal representation of numbers. Any number stored internally always has 12 digits.

For example, in the number 14.8745632019, you see only "14.8746" when the display mode is set to FIX 4, but the last six digits ("632019") are present internally in the calculator.

To temporarily display a number in full precision, press Î. This shows you the mantissa (but no exponent) of the number for as long as you hold down

Î.

Keys:

Display:

Description:

￿



Four decimal places displayed.

 

8() 

Scientific format: two decimal

 

places and an exponent.

8() 

Engineering format.