Changing The Number Of Displayed Decimal Places - HP -18C Owner's Manual

Changing the Number of Displayed Decimal
Places
To change the number of displayed decimal places:
1. Press
I OISP
1
to display the
DISP
menu.
Figure 2·3. The DISP Menu
TO SET #DECIMAL PLACES:
PRESS {FIX) OR {ALL).
RADIX: {.) OR {,)
1iDl1:iIm _ _
2. Do a or
b:
a.
To specify the number of displayed decimal places, press
_
. Type the number of decimal places (an integer from
o
to 11) and press
1
INPUT I.
b.
To display numbers as precisely as possible (up to a maxi-
mum of 12 digits), press . . . .
Changing the number of displayed decimal places affects what you
see, but doesn't affect internal calculations. Internally, the HP-18C
does calculations with 12-digit numbers.*
Starting with two displayed decimal places:
Keys: Display: Description:
450 ·12560
Two decimal places are
5.65
displayed.
IOlspl _
Four decimal places are
411NPUTI 5.65213
displayed.
IOlspl . . .
5.652
Trailing zeros are
dropped.
IOlspl " , 2
Two decimal places are
I INPUT
1
5.65
displayed.
• An exception is values of PV, PMT, and INT used in amortization calculations (refer to
Amortization
on page 66), which are rounded to the display setting.
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