Understanding Digit Entry - HP -32S Owner's Manual

Other Exponent Functions. To specify an exponent of ten while en
tering a number, use Q0. To calculate an exponent of ten (the base 10
antilogarithm), use §§Q(E] (chapter 4). To calculate the result of any
number raised to a power (exponentiation), use [3 (chapter 4).
Understanding Digit Entry
As you key in a number, the cursor (_) appears in the display. The
cursor shows you where the next digit will go; it therefore indicates
that this number is not completed yet. In technical talk, we say that
digit entry is not terminated.
Keys: Display: Description:
123 123. Digit entry is not ter
minated: the number is
not completed.
If you execute a function to calculate a result, then the cursor disap
pears because the number is complete. Digit entry has been
terminated.
Hxl 11.0905 Digit entry terminated.
Pressing Ienter Ialso terminates digit entry. This is why you must sep
arate two numbers with I enter I: to terminate one number before
starting to key in the second one.
123 Ienter I 123.0000 A completed number.
5 |T1 128.0000 Another completed
number.
If digit entry is not terminated (the cursor is present), then (5 back
spaces to erase the last digit. If digit entry is terminated (no cursor),
then (T) acts like (c] and clears the entire number. Try it!
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