Contents

Preface

Manual conventions...............................................................................

P-1

Notice ....................................................................................................

P-2

1 Getting started

On/off, cancel operations........................................................................

1-1

The display .............................................................................................

1-2

The keyboard ..........................................................................................

1-3

Menus .....................................................................................................

1-8

Input forms .............................................................................................

1-9

Mode settings..........................................................................................

1-9

Setting a mode ................................................................................

1-11

Aplets (E–lessons) ................................................................................

1-11

Aplet library ....................................................................................

1-15

Aplet views .....................................................................................

1-15

Aplet view configuration ................................................................

1-17

Mathematical calculations ....................................................................

1-18

Using fractions......................................................................................

1-24

Complex numbers.................................................................................

1-27

Catalogs and editors .............................................................................

1-28

Differences between the HP 38G and the HP 39G/40G.......................

1-29

2 Aplets and their views

Aplet views .............................................................................................

2-1

About the Symbolic view .................................................................

2-1

Defining an expression (Symbolic view)..........................................

2-1

Evaluating expressions .....................................................................

2-3

About the Plot view ..........................................................................

2-5

Setting up the plot (Plot view setup).................................................

2-5

Exploring the graph ..........................................................................

2-7

Other views for scaling and splitting the graph ..............................

2-14

About the numeric view..................................................................

2-16

Setting up the table (numeric view setup) ......................................

2-17

Exploring the table of numbers.......................................................

2-18

Building your own table of numbers ..............................................

2-19

“Build Your Own” menu keys........................................................

2-20

Example: plotting a circle ...............................................................

2-21

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