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Powers and roots

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HP 9s Powers and Roots
Powers and Roots
Practice Solving Problems Involving Powers and Roots

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Summary of Contents for HP 9s

  • Page 1 HP 9s Powers and Roots Powers and Roots Practice Solving Problems Involving Powers and Roots...
  • Page 2 Notice the following important relationships: − The HP 9s has numerous functions to calculate powers and roots. These are: O, ~i, the exponential function ~h, ~o (same as 1/x), the power function B , F which calculates square roots (i.e. second roots), ~f, that calculates cube roots (the third root), and the xth-root function ~b.
  • Page 3 8, 15 and 17 is an example of a Pythagorean triple, i.e. integers that can be the sides of the same right triangle. Some of the simpler sets were already known by the ancient Egyptians.) Refer to the HP 9s learning module Polar/Rectangular Coordinate Conversions to learn a faster way of calculating the hypotenuse.
  • Page 4 Remember that we can write the above equation this other way: Remember that the key starts a new calculation. The key is only active after pressing , or a two- ~Ð argument function (e.g. , etc.) hp calculators - 4 - HP 9s Powers and Roots - Version 1.0...
  • Page 5 G =5.873725441 here cannot be more than six pending operations on the HP 9s (e.g. 1 + ( 1 + ( 1 + ( 1 + ( 1 + ( 1 + ( 1 + generates an error condition). Is that much limitation ? Well, let’s see if the Hp 9s can solve the following formula, which has been taken...