Sharp EL-738 SET UP Menu, Selecting the display notation and number of decimal places

DEG / RAD / GRAD : Indicates which angular units are in use. It can be changed in the SET UP menu.

: Appears when statistics mode is selected.

M: Indicates that a numerical value is stored in the inde- pendent memory (M).

: Indicates that the value of the displayed variable has not been calculated yet (for variables that can be cal- culated).

The SET UP Menu

Press ~to display the SET UP menu.

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•A menu item can be selected by:

•Using g/ yto select a number (the selected number will blink), then pressing =, or

•pressing the number key corresponding to the menu item number.

• If or is displayed on the screen, press zor ito view the previous/next part of the menu.

• Press sto exit the SET UP menu.

Selecting the display notation and number of decimal places

The calculator has three display notation systems (fixed decimal point, scientific notation and floating point) for displaying calcu- lation results.

•If ~00(TAB) is pressed, “DIG(0-9)?” will be displayed and the number of decimal places can be set to any value between 0 and 9.

•If ~01(SCI) is pressed, “SIG(0-9)?” will be displayed and the number of significant digit can be set to any value between 0 and 9. Entering 0 will set a 10-digit display.

•If a floating point number does not fit in the specified range, the calculator will display the result in scientific notation (expo- nential notation). See the next section for details.

•The default setting is a fixed decimal point with two decimal places.

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