HP 50g manual Functions applied to complex numbers, Cmplx menu in keyboard

CMPLX menu in keyboard

A second CMPLX menu is accessible by using the right-shift option associated with the 1 key, i.e., ‚ß. With system flag 117 set to CHOOSE boxes, the keyboard CMPLX menu shows up as the following screens:

The resulting menu include some of the functions already introduced in the previous section, namely, ARG, ABS, CONJ, IM, NEG, RE, and SIGN. It also includes function i which serves the same purpose as the keystroke combination „¥.

Functions applied to complex numbers

Many of the keyboard-based functions and MTH menu functions defined in

Chapter 3 for real numbers (e.g., SQ, LN, ex, etc.), can be applied to complex numbers. The result is another complex number, as illustrated in the following examples.

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