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HP50g Statistics Application Message #1 Posted by sam on 6 Dec 2007, 1:28 p.m. I am new standard user for HP50g calculators. I am as familiar with programming on this calculator. I got the calculator via the company, so I choose the most expensive calculator. I mostly use it for it's statistics applications. Everything worked well until a week ago when I decided to use it for some financial calculations. Since then, I am unable to launch the Statistics application. Instead I get an error message that say BAD ARGUMENT TYPE! This happens immediately i try to launch the application. I have tried resetting the CAS, MODE, FLAGS, to their default values and nothing works. Someone please help. If you hang out in owings mills, MD i'll buy you a beer. I am in bind, so any and all help is appreciated. Keep in mind I an not a seasoned user

Re: HP50g Statistics Application Message #2 Posted by Frank Rottgardt on 6 Dec 2007, 4:25 p.m., in response to message #1 by sam I never used a 50g. Only 48gx. Have you tried to purge the Sigma DAT variable (the one containing your statistic data). Maybe it got corrupted somehow. But it should not result in a error message right from the start before processing the data. Strange.

Re: HP50g Statistics Application Message #3 Posted by sam on 6 Dec 2007, 5:58 p.m., in response to message #2 by Frank Rottgardt Thank you for the response. No, I have not tried this. How exactly do I purge this Sigma DAT variable. There are very few resources on HP calc. troubleshooting, and none I could find about error messages. Please let me know. Thank you.

Re: HP50g Statistics Application Message #4 Posted by Giancarlo (Italy) on 7 Dec 2007, 2:28 a.m., in response to message #3 by sam Hi Sam. If you press the [VAR] key, then you'll enter the VARiable browser. If necessary, press [NXT] to browse thorugh the variables stored in the HOME directory till you see tha SigmaDAT one (please note that here "Sigma" just stands for the Greek capital letter Sigma - so you're gonna see on the display a Greek capital sigma letter plus the "DAT" suffix). Then you will want to press: [LEFT SHIFT][+] @puts a pair of curly brackets on the command line the [F1]...[F6] key corresponding to the SigmaDAT variable [ENTER] @to terminate command line input [TOOL] @to bring back the "basic functions" [F5] @the "PURGE" key and you're done! By the way, if the above does not brings you out of trouble, you may want to consider the following: 1) try to issue the CASCFG command (you may pick it from the [CAT] list you get by pressing [RIGHT SHIFT][]SYMB] - it will "re-configure" the CAS settings 2) try to do a warm reset by pressing: [ON]+[F3] - this will "re-boot" the 50G 3) try to do a full reset by pressing: [ON]+[F1]+[F3] - WARNING! This will reset the 50g to a nearly "out-of-the-box" state !! Hope this helps. Best regards. Giancarlo Edited: 7 Dec 2007, 2:34 a.m.

Re: HP50g Statistics Application Message #5 Posted by sam on 7 Dec 2007, 8:41 a.m., in response to message #4 by Giancarlo (Italy) First step worked like a charm. Perfect! Thank you, Thank you. I live in Maryland and you are possibly in Italy. BUT I still owe you a beer. This really saved the day.

Re: HP50g Statistics Application Message #6 Posted by Giancarlo (Italy) on 7 Dec 2007, 9:06 a.m., in response to message #5 by sam Glad it helped :-) Yes, I live in Italy, but if I'll be passing in Maryland, I'll be happy to taste a beer! (by the way - how about MD's beer?). Take care. Giancarlo

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