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The Mode Menu: Setting Preferences - calculator manual

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Basic Features The top line of the screen displays operation status, operator symbols, annunciators, and abbreviations of the registers, variables, and menus. Throughout this manual, this line is referred to as the top line. In Figure 1-1, SIN and RPN on the far right are on the top line. The bottom line displays numbers you have entered, or results. Throughout this manual, this line is referred to as the bottom line. When no operations have been entered and no operations are pending, the bottom line of the screen displays 0. This state of the calculator is referred to as the default calculator screen. The Mode Menu: Setting Preferences The Mode menu allows you to customize the calculator. To access the Mode menu, press :u. Press > or < repeatedly to scroll through the menu starting with FIX=2 (the number of digits displayed to the right of the decimal point). Once an item is displayed, press I to cycle through the other options for that setting. To exit the Mode menu, press O. Table 1-1 below lists the items in the Mode menu. 8

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Basic Features
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The top line of the screen displays operation status, operator symbols,
annunciators, and abbreviations of the registers, variables, and menus.
Throughout this manual, this line is referred to as the
top line
. In Figure 1-1,
SIN
and
RPN
on the far right are on the top line.
The bottom line displays numbers you have entered, or results. Throughout this
manual, this line is referred to as the
bottom line
.
When no operations have been entered and no operations are pending, the
bottom line of the screen displays
0
. This state of the calculator is referred to as
the
default calculator screen
.
The Mode Menu: Setting Preferences
The Mode menu allows you to customize the calculator. To access the Mode
menu, press
:u
. Press
>
or
<
repeatedly to scroll through the
menu starting with
FIX=2
(the number of digits displayed to the right of the
decimal point). Once an item is displayed, press
I
to cycle through the
other options for that setting. To exit the Mode menu, press
O
. Table 1-1
below lists the items in the Mode menu
.