Recognizing Calculator Modes - HP RPN SCIENTIFIC WP 34S Owner's Manual

Recognizing Calculator Modes

The annunciators or specific characters either in the dot matrix or in the exponent section
indicate most modes and system states:
Indicator Set by
à

, 
INPUT 
=
ã
battery low
program pointer
BEG
at step 000
STO

flashes while a
RCL
program is
running
RAD 

360
almost every
RPN
command

B__
3__
BASE 3
∙∙∙ ∙∙∙
7__
BASE 7

o__
9__
BASE 9

d__
-1__
BASE 11
∙∙∙
∙∙∙
-5__
BASE 15

h__
_c_
carry set,
__o
overflow,
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Cleared by
 


ON
look at right
battery voltage > 2.5 V
otherwise

program stopped


a temporary message
any other BASE setting

FRACT will set fraction
mode (called FRC).


and TIME will set default
floating point decimal
mode (i.e. DECM).
 


, 

,
OFF
look at right


,

,

,

, , and
  
, , , ,
 
,
,

, carry clear
Edition 3.1
Explanation, remarks
Lower case letters will be entered
in alpha mode (see p. 61).
Alpha mode (see p. 61)
Steady if debug mode is turned on
(see App. A and H) or while serial
I/O is in progress (see
Flashing when the
running (except in STOPW).
Else clear.
Your WP 34S will shut off when
voltage drops below 2.1
Programming mode
Angular mode (see p. 42)
See p. 38 for
temporary messages in general.
Binary integer mode
Respective integer mode (see p.
53 for all of these modes)
Octal integer mode
Integer mode of base 9
Decimal integer mode
,
Respective integer mode
Hexadecimal integer mode
Indicate the respective bits set in
integer modes (see p. 53).
App. D).
stopwatch is
V
.
handling of
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