Contents
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Contents
Preface
Manual conventions
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P-1
Notice
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P-2
1
Getting started
On/off, cancel operations
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1-1
The display
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1-2
The keyboard
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1-3
Menus
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1-8
Input forms
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1-9
Mode settings
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1-9
Setting a mode
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1-11
Aplets (E–lessons)
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1-11
Aplet library
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1-15
Aplet views
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1-15
Aplet view configuration
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1-17
Mathematical calculations
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1-18
Using fractions
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1-24
Complex numbers
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1-27
Catalogs and editors
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1-28
Differences between the HP 38G and the HP 39G/40G
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1-29
2
Aplets and their views
Aplet views
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2-1
About the Symbolic view
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2-1
Defining an expression (Symbolic view)
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2-1
Evaluating expressions
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2-3
About the Plot view
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2-5
Setting up the plot (Plot view setup)
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2-5
Exploring the graph
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2-7
Other views for scaling and splitting the graph
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2-14
About the numeric view
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2-16
Setting up the table (numeric view setup)
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2-17
Exploring the table of numbers
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2-18
Building your own table of numbers
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2-19
“Build Your Own” menu keys
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2-20
Example: plotting a circle
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2-21