Set Up - Degrees To Radians; Decimal Places And Scientific Notation - Casio Fx-82AU PLUS II User Manual

Setup information
Setting the calculator to degrees or radians
In the computation mode press qw to bring up the following screen:
Press 3 for degrees or 4 for radians. The calculator will remember the setting until you change it.

Decimal places and scientific notation

In the computation mode press qw for the above screen. Press 6 to fix the number of decimal
places. The calculator will ask for the required number of decimal places. Press the number you require
and the calculator will continue to display answers in this form until you instruct it to do otherwise.
Refer to information on page 4 about toggling between fractions and decimals to obtain answers in
different forms.
Answers expressed in scientific notation
In the computation mode press qw for the setup screen. The calculator will then ask for the
number of significant figures required. Press the number you require and the calculator will continue to
display answers in this form until you instruct it to do otherwise.
Setting the calculator back to 'normal'
In the computation mode press qw for the setup menu. Press 8 for 'normal display'. The
calculator will ask you whether you want Norm 1 or Norm 2. The difference between Norm 1 and Norm
2 is the value when the calculator swaps from a display as a decimal or a display as a decimal in scientific
notation.
In Norm 1, the answer to 1P200 is displayed as 5 × 10
-3
.
In Norm 2, the answer to 1P200 is displayed as 0.005.
-9
Norm 2 doesn't use scientific notation until the display is of the order of 5 × 10 .
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