User Functions For Unit Conversion - HP -28S Manual

User Functions for Unit Conversion
If you perform particular unit conversions often, you can write user
functions for those conversions. In this section you'll write user func-
tions O-C and C-O that convert between ounces and grams; since
they're user functions, you can use them in either RPN or algebraic
syntax.
Recall that user functions must fulfill two requirements:
• They must explicitly indicate their arguments .
• They must return exactly one result.
First write O-C.
Begin the program and indicate the argument.
~---------=~~~~~=== 0.G
~
x
2: 74.8051948052
1: 'gal'
The right arrow indicates that the following name is a
local variable,
which will exist only within this program.
Define the conversion.
o
x ['] oz ['] [']
9 [']
. 1
CONVERT
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DROP
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ENTER
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2: 'gal'
1: «
-1-
x
«
x
'oz' ,
9 ,
CONVERT DROP
» »
mDlIiDIRHlrnHDDDlID
The closing delimiters are added for you.
This program means: take an argument from the stack (in RPN syn-
tax) or from the expression (in algebraic syntax) and call it
x; convert x
from ounces to grams; and drop the gram unit from the stack.
Store the program in a variable O-C.
~----------------------~
['] o.G
G
ISTOI
3:
2: 74.8051948052
1 :
'gal'
mDlIiDIRHlrnHDDDlID
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