HP 50g manual Available units, Attaching units to numbers

Pressing on the appropriate soft menu key will open the sub-menu of units for that particular selection. For example, for the @)SPEEDsub-menu, the following units are available:

Pressing the soft menu key @)UNITSwill take you back to the UNITS menu.

Recall that you can always list the full menu labels in the screen by using ‚˜, e.g., for the @)ENRGset of units the following labels will be listed:

NOTE: Use the L key or the „«keystroke sequence to navigate through the menus.

Available units

For a complete list of available units see Chapter 3 in the calculator’s user’s guide.

Attaching units to numbers

To attach a unit object to a number, the number must be followed by an underscore (‚Ý, key(8,5)). Thus, a force of 5 N will be entered as 5_N.

Here is the sequence of steps to enter this number in ALG mode, system flag 117 set to CHOOSE boxes:

5‚Ý‚Û8@@OK@@ @@OK@@ `

NOTE: If you forget the underscore, the result is the expression 5*N, where N here represents a possible variable name and not Newtons.

To enter this same quantity, with the calculator in RPN mode, use the following keystrokes:

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