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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 .....................................................................

1-10

 

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

1-11

 

Aplets (E-lessons).................................................................

1-12

 

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

1-16

 

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

1-16

 

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

1-18

 

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

1-19

 

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

1-25

 

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

1-29

 

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

1-30

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 ..................

2-13

 

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

2-16

 

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

2-16

 

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

2-17

 

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

2-19

 

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

2-20

 

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

2-20

3

Function aplet

 

 

About the Function aplet ........................................................

3-1

 

Getting started with the Function aplet.................................

3-1

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