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CHAPTER 4. PERFORMING CALCULATIONS
4.5
Square Roots
Above
, you will find the
Example:
To calculate
32, you would type
With the square root, you should notice a few things:
a. When you press
to provide the closing parenthesis after the 32. If you do not insert the closing parenthesis,
the calculator will give you a error message.
b. As with the 6/7, this calculation also gave you the simplified exact value, 4 2, and not an
approximation, about 5.65685425.
4.6
Exponents
To use exponents, you need to use the
fractional exponents, make sure you put parentheses around the exponent.
Example:
5
To calculate 3
, you would type
Example:
1 3
To calculate 8
, you would type
symbol in blue. Press
, it gave you the radical and the opening parenthesis. You needed
key to indicate you have an exponent. If you are using
12
to use the square root.
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