Re: HP 50g - displaying result in engineering format Message #3 Posted by Dieter on 21 Nov 2013, 9:54 a.m., in response to message #1 by Sean Freeman
I have to admit I never even touched a 50G, but I wonder if it does not offer a feature that's even available on my 35s: There are two keys labelled "->ENG" and "ENG->" that temporarily display the current X-value in engineering notation while the user may change the power of ten resp. move the decimal point/comma:
9E6 [ENTER]
7 [/] 1285714,28571
[ENG->] 1,28571428571 E6
[ENG->] 1285,71428571 E3
[ENG->] 1285714,28571 E0
[ENG->] 1285714285,71 E-3
[->ENG] 1285714,28571 E0
[->ENG] 1285,71428571 E3
[->ENG] 1,28571428571 E6
[->ENG] 0,00128571428571 E9
[->ENG] 0,00000128571428571 E12
[<-] 1285714,28571
As you can see, the display is not rounded to four significant places, as you would prefer. The display always shows all digits. But otherwise everything works as you demanded. Does the 50G not offer something like this? If not, a short program should do the trick.
Dieter
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