Chain Calculations - HP -32S Owner's Manual

Keys:
Display:
96.7940
Description:
96.704 | ENTER 1
52.3947 0
149.0987
52.3947
Intermediate result.
HI LASTx l
Brings back display
from before 0.
0
2.8457
Final result.
Example. Two close stellar neighbors of Earth are Rigel Centaurus
(4.3 light-years away) and Sirius (8.7 light-years away). Use c, the
speed of light (9.5 x 1015 meters per year) to convert the distances
from the Earth to these stars into meters.
to Rigel Centaurus = 4.3 yr. x (9.5 x 1015 m/yr.)
to Sirius = 8.7 yr. x (9.5 x 1015 m/yr.)
Keys: Display:
4.3080
Description:
4.3 1ENTER |
Light-years to R.
Centaurus.
9.5 0 15
9.5E15.
Speed of light, c.
0
4.085E16
9.5O00E15
Distance to R.
Centaurus.
8.7 til LASTx |
Retrieves c.
0
8.2650E16
Distance to Sirius.
Chain Calculations
The automatic lifting and dropping of the stack's contents let you re
tain intermediate results without storing or reentering them, and
without using parentheses. This is an advantage the RPN stack has
over other data-handling methods.
44 2: The Automatic Memory Stack