Re: HP-42S display Message #2 Posted by Thomas Okken on 24 June 2010, 4:13 p.m., in response to message #1 by Dick
It sounds like it's showing a menu and that's why you're only seeing X, instead of seeing both X and Y. If that is indeed the case, you can get rid of the menu by pressing EXIT; you may have to press it more than once if you're inside a nested menu.
If it's the number display format you're talking about, you can control that using the DISP menu (Shift E): FIX, followed by a two-digit number from 0 to 11, selects fixed mode, where you see a constant number of digits behind the decimal; SCI selects scientific notation, where there's always an exponent of 10, even if the number could be displayed without one; ENG, or engineering mode, is like SCI mode except the exponent is always a multiple of 3, making it easier to convert to SI-style magnitude prefixes. ALL mode is like FIX 11 but does not display trailing zeroes.
HTH,
- Thomas
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