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Re: New to HP50

2008-06-21 by Juan C.

There is an easy way to get to all the "modes" that controls the way your calculator will preform the calculations: Press and hold the [LEFT-SHIFT] key (white key) then press [MODE] key, a soft menu with sub menus appears, the one you are interested in is ANGLE which you access pressing [F2] the last three soft keys switch the mode a complex or  a vector will be showed.

You can also do what a I did, I assigned a little program to the [MODE] key that toggles between rectangular or polar, to do that:


- Enter this a program in the stack

«

IF -16 FC?C

THEN -16 SF

END

»


- Press 21 [ALPHA] [ALPHA] ASN [ENTER]


Is that simple!  Now every time you want to switch form rectangular to polar or vice versa, just press [LEFT-SHIFT] [ALPHA] [MODE] in other words [LEFT-SHIFT] [ALPHA] is USER

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