Print Conventions And Common Abbreviations - HP RPN SCIENTIFIC WP 34S Owner's Manual

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Print Conventions and Common Abbreviations

Throughout this manual, standard font is Arial. Emphasis is added by underlining or bold
printing. Specific terms, titles, trademarks, names or abbreviations are printed in italics,
hyperlinks
in blue underlined italics. Bold italic letters such as n are used for variables;
constant sample values (e.g. of labels or displayed characters) use bold normal letters.
Calculator COMMANDS are generally called by their names, printed in capitals in running
text.

This
font is taken for explicit references to calculator keys. Alphanumeric and numeric
displays (such as
where applicable and beneficial.
Courier is employed for
Register ADDRESSES are printed using bold Times New Roman capitals, while register
contents
are expressed by lower case bold italics. So e.g. the value
Y
r45
,
in general purpose register
contents are generally quoted in the order [
units
.
All this holds unless stated otherwise.
The following abbreviations are used at various locations in this manual:
DP
= double precision (see p. 186).
FM
= flash memory (a special kind of RAM, see p. 72).
IOP
= index of operations (see p. 74).
IR
= infrared.
LCD
= liquid crystal display.
RAM
= random access memory, allowing read and write operations.
ROM
= read-only memory, allowing only read operations.
SP
= single precision (see p. 159).
USB
= universal serial bus, i.e. a specific interface.
XROM = extended ROM (see p. 72).
Some more abbreviations may be used locally.
Finally: WARNING indicates the risk of severe errors. There are only four warnings printed in this
manual. Locking up your calculator is the worst that can happen to it, as far as we know.
WP 34S Owner's Manual
Hello! and 12, 3 4 ) are quoted using the respective calculator fonts
file names
R45
formats
and numeric
alpha
, and
in the alpha register. Overall stack
, ...] . Lower case normal italics are for
x
y
z
,
,
Edition 3.1
.
y
lives in stack register
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