Exploring the graph

PLOT view keys

Plot view gives you a selection of keys and menu keys to explore a graph further. The options vary from aplet to aplet.

The following table details the keys that you use to work with the graph.

Key

Meaning

 

 

 

>6+,)7@CLEAR

Erases the plot and axes.

>9,(:6@

Offers additional pre-defined views for

 

splitting the screen and for scaling

 

(“zooming”) the axes.

>6+,)7@*>,

Moves cursor to far left or far right.

>6+,)7@*A,

 

 

 

*k,3$86(_

Moves cursor between relations.

*e,

 

 

 

&217_or >21@

Interrupts plotting.

 

0(18_

Continues plotting if interrupted.

 

Turns menu-key labels on and off. When

 

the labels are off, pressing 0(18_turns

 

them back on.

 

 

Pressing

once displays the

 

 

full row of labels.

 

Pressing

a second time

 

 

removes the row of labels to display

 

 

only the graph.

 

 

• Pressing 0(18_a third time displays

=220_

 

the coordinate mode.

75$&(_

Displays ZOOM menu list.

 

Turns trace mode on/off. A white box

*272_

appears over the (_on 75$&(_.

 

Opens an input form for you to enter an X

 

(or T or N or θ) value. Enter the value and

 

press 2._. The cursor jumps to the point

)&1_

on the graph that you entered.

 

Function aplet only: Turns on menu list

 

for root-finding functions (see “Analyse

'()1_

graph with FCN functions” on page 3-3.

 

Displays the current, defining

 

expression. Press 0(18_to restore the

 

menu.

 

 

 

 

 

Aplets and their views

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HP 40G manual Exploring the graph, Plot view keys, +,7@*A