Entering Numbers - HP RPN SCIENTIFIC WP 34S Owner's Manual

Let us return to our introductory example for two remarks
1. There is no need to enter units in your calculations. Just stay with a consistent set of
units and you will get meaningful results within this set.
from one unit to another, however, see the catalog CONV described further below.
2. Although we entered integer numbers only for both sides of our little ground, your
WP 34S calculated the diagonal in default floating point mode. This allows for
decimal fractions of e.g.
enter proper fractions such as e.g. 6 ¼ where you need them. Your WP 34S features
more modes – we will introduce them to you from p.
some ways to enter numbers in your WP 34S and to further deal with them in typical
calculations .

Entering Numbers

... is as easy as typing. For 12.34, for

example, press
mistyped may be deleted immediately by

and entered correctly thereafter.
For negative numbers such as –5.6 , press
 
or

the changes the sign of the number put
in.
For entering really big stuff such as the
age of the universe as we know it, do it this

way:
with nine digits trailing the point, i.e.
13 800 000 000 years. Really tiny numbers
such as the diameter
m
(0.000 000 000 1
the 1) are entered in full analogy:
correspond to 1∙10

Any numeric input will just fill the display and is interpreted when completed, not earlier.
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Generally, we assume you have graduated from US High School at minimum, passed Abitur, Matura, or an
equivalent graduation. So we will not explain basic mathematical rules and concepts here.
And in four decades of scientific pocket calculators, a wealth of funny to sophisticated sample applications
has been created and described by different authors – more and better than we can ever invent ourselves.
It is not our intention to copy them. Instead, we recommend the DVD mentioned
it contains nearly all the user guides, handbooks, and manuals published for vintage Hewlett-Packard
calculators beginning with their very first, the HP-9100A of 1968. Be assured that almost every calculation
described there for any scientific calculator can be done significantly faster on your WP 34S – and often
even in a more elegant way.
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The big advantage of SI is that it is the largest consistent set available.
WP 34S Owner's Manual
yards
in input and output as well. Another mode lets you
. Any digit

or
resulting in 13.8
of an atom
– ten zeroes heading
-10
m
8
–
.
Edition 3.1
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If you want to convert results
35 on). Before, let us show you
above once again:
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