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HEET
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ETAL
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P
RO
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ALC
KEY DEFINITIONS ............................................................................6
BASIC OPERATION KEYS.............................................................6
CONVERT
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KEY—
UNIT CONVERSIONS and
SECOND FUNCTIONS
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MEMORY and STORAGE FUNCTIONS ........................................7
RECALL
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KEY ..........................................................................8
FEET-INCH-FRACTION and METRIC KEYS .................................8
TRIGONOMETRIC KEYS ...............................................................9
PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM/RIGHT TRIANGLE KEYS..............10
LAW OF COSINES/NON-90 DEGREE TRIANGLE KEYS ...........12
OFFSET KEYS..............................................................................13
FAN LAW KEYS............................................................................14
VELOCITY PRESSURE/FPM KEYS ............................................15
CIRCULAR/ARC FUNCTION KEYS.............................................15
COLUMN/CONE KEY ...................................................................16
HIP/VALLEY and JACK RAFTER KEYS.......................................17
STAIR KEY....................................................................................19
GETTING STARTED........................................................................21
ORDER OF OPERATIONS...........................................................21
USING PARENTHESES ...............................................................22
SETTING FRACTIONAL RESOLUTION.......................................23
Setting Fraction Resolution to Other Than 16ths —
Using the Preference Setting Mode
.......................................23
Setting Fixed/Constant Fractional Resolution............................24
ENTERING DIMENSIONS............................................................25
Entering Linear Dimensions.......................................................25
Entering Square/Cubic Dimensions...........................................25
CONVERSIONS (LINEAR, AREA, VOLUME) ..............................27
Linear Conversions ....................................................................27
Converting Feet-Inch-Fractions to Decimal Feet.......................27
Converting Decimal Feet to Feet-Inch-Fractions.......................27
Converting Fractional Inches to Decimal Inches .......................27
Converting Decimal Inches to Fractional Inches .......................28
Square Conversions ..................................................................28
Cubic Conversions.....................................................................28
PERFORMING BASIC MATH WITH DIMENSIONS....................29
Adding Dimensions ....................................................................29
Subtracting Dimensions .............................................................29
Multiplying Dimensions ..............................................................29
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