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HP 9s Operating Modes and Display Format 
 
 
 
 
 
The Operating Modes of the HP 9s 
 
The Angular Mode 
 
Display Format 
 
 

 
 

 
 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
 

 

Summary of Contents for HP 9s

Page 1: ...hp calculators HP 9s Operating Modes and Display Format The Operating Modes of the HP 9s The Angular Mode Display Format ...

Page 2: ...s active even if power is turned off in order to preserve the statistical data entered by the user up to 80 different items The data is lost however when another operating mode is selected There is a special mode in which the data can be edited the ED mode which is described in the HP 9s learning module Clearing Editing and Correcting The modules Statistics Process Capability and Statistics Averag...

Page 3: ...anged by the user But the pseudo random number returned by the RND function Ü is always displayed in FIX 3 the display format setting is not actually changed though and is still used in the current calculation this is convenient because the resulting number is always a number between 0 and 0 999 with three significant digits that is to say a result of say 0 000 is as though three random digits wer...

Page 4: ...st be truncated using the above procedure Example 4 Round π to four decimal digits Solution Press a again and then A 5 A9 A9 Answer 3 1416 Note that this is not the same result as the one obtained by pressing a p 4 even though they appear to be the same number Set FIX 6 p 6 in both cases to tell the difference The HP 9s provides two keys to convert the number that is currently in the display to sc...

Page 5: ... to express this number with an exponent that is a multiple of three including zero To change the exponent in multiples of three press the and keys as many times as needed For example pressing returns NB not and pressing now results in NB not These numbers reveal that and actually convert the displayed number as is displayed not its internal value which is not modified in any case though 00 10 456...

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