Calculations Using Math Menu - Sharp EL-9900 Operation Manual

Chapter 5: Advanced Calculations — Advanced Keyboard
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3. Calculations Using MATH Menu

The Advanced keyboard has considerably more MATH menu items to choose from
than that of the Basic keyboard:
A CALC
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Raises a preceding value to the power of
preceded, then the cursor will be placed at the base.
Enters an a th root of a base. When a value precedes, then the
value will be incorporated as the index number. Otherwise, both
entry areas will be left blank.
Enters a square root; sets the cursor at the base entry area.
Enters π (3.14...).
Sets the following value as θ , assuming the preceding value is the
radius of the polar coordinates.
Enters i (representing
numbers.
Contains sub-menu tools for advanced calculations. To access
each sub-menu item, make sure that this A CALC menu item is
selected. Pressing the ' cursor key will extend the cursor to
the sub-menu items. Items can then be highlighted by scrolling
with {, }, ; or ', and selected by pressing
E, or simply use the short cut key stroke (i.e., select 01 by
pressing 0 and 1).
A sub-menu item with open parenthesis will need to be completed
by the closing parenthesis; failure to do so will result in an error.
01 log log value
2 2
Enters a base-2
logarithm (log
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1. If no value is
), to make imaginary or combination
-
1
).
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