Clearing Values In Menus - HP 17bII Owner's Manual

Many menus in this calculator work like the example above. The rules
for using variables are:
To store a value, key in the number and press the menu key.
Arithmetic calculations, as well as single values, can be stored.
To calculate a value, press the menu key without first keying in a
number. The calculator displays  when a value is
being calculated.
To verify a stored value, press
key. For example,
To transfer a value to another menu, do nothing if it is displayed
(that is, it is in the calculator line). A number in the calculator line
remains there when you switch menus. To transfer more than one
value from a menu, use storage registers. See page 45, "Storing and
Recalling Numbers."
Exiting Menus (
The key is used to leave the current menu and go back to the
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previously displayed menu (as shown in the previous example). This is
true for menus you might pick by accident, too:

Clearing Values in Menus

The key is a powerful feature to clear all the data in the
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currently displayed menu, giving you a clean slate for new calculations.
If the current menu has variables (that is, if the display shows menu
labels for variables, such as COST, PRICE, and M%C in the MU%C
menu), pressing
zero.
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If you have just switched menus and want to store the result already in the
calculator line, then you should press s before the menu key
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To store the same number into two different variables, use s for the second
variable, e.g. 25
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clears the values of those variables to
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(recall) followed by the menu
gets you out.
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