Re: ANS vs LAST-X Message #2 Posted by Mark Harman on 6 Nov 2010, 2:34 p.m., in response to message #1 by Jim Yohe
Jim,
ANS is that way to satisfy Algebraic and Chain mode users who are familiar with having an ANS key. ANS is familiar to TI users and it is the same as the LAST function on older scientific HP algebraic models. The majority of people who use this calculator will likely not use RPN. Quite a shame actually, as I converted from a Chain/Algebraic TI to this fine machine and now that I have learned RPN, I don't think I could ever use anything else.
Unfortunately, I am not sure what the ← key is. I am guessing it is the backspace key. You hit it once to show full viewable precision of the result and you can hit it again as much as you want to truncate the result. I think this offers much better functionality than what SHOW does, which, as you mentioned, is momentary. Just hit the ON/CE key to get out of it - you won't lose your displayed number. If you want to keep the result, hit INPUT.
Regards,
Mark
Edited: 6 Nov 2010, 2:34 p.m.
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