Catalog Menu; Units Menu - HP -28S Quick Reference

General Displays a list of all available commands in alphabetical order.
Press a character to jump to the next command that starts with this
character.
NEXT, PREV Go to next/previous command
SCAN Automatically display all entries one after the other. SCAN will be replaced
by STOP which can be used to stop the scan.
Not available with some HP-28S versions!
USE Display the arguments that the command expects on the stack.
This also brings up its own NEXT/PREV menu to scroll thru different
argument sets.
FETCH Bring the command name into the edit line.
QUIT Quit the catalog
General UNITS is not a menu but a catalog of all available built-in units.
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SI base units Quantity
Length
Mass
Time
Electric current
Temperature
Luminous intensity
Amount of substance
CONVERT Use this command to convert between units:
100 "m" "ft" CONVERT results in 328.08 "ft"
Note that the converted number sits in stack level 2 and the new unit
string in stack level 1.
Provided no variables m and ft exist this would also work:
100 m ft CONVERT
Unit string • The string defining the units may consist of a product of multiple
Name.............................:
Local name.....................:
Program.........................:
Algebraic expression........:
Binary number................: 10

CATALOG Menu

Use PREV/NEXT to step thru the list.
Use SCAN to let the HP-28S step thru the units catalog. Use STOP to
halt the scan. Not available on all HP-28S versions .
Press a character to jump to the next unit which starts with this
character.
Press "1" to jump to the last entry.
For every unit the value and the constituting SI units are given.
Use FETCH to bring the unit name into the command line.
Use quit to close the UNITS Menu.
elementary units:
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UNITS Menu

Unit Abbreviation
Meter m
Kilograms kg
Seconds s
Ampere A
Kelvin °K
Candela cd
Mol mol
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