Selecting Display Notation And Number Of Decimal Places; The Set Up Menu - Sharp EL-738 Operation Manual

DEG / RAD / GRAD : Indicates which angular units are in use.
It can be changed in the SET UP menu.
: Appears when statistics mode is selected.
M : Indicates that a numerical value is stored in the inde-
pendent memory (M).
: Indicates that the value of the displayed variable has
not been calculated yet (for variables that can be cal-
culated).

The SET UP Menu

Press ~ to display the SET UP menu.
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• A menu item can be selected by:
• Using g / y to select a number (the selected number
will blink), then pressing = , or
• pressing the number key corresponding to the menu item
number.
is displayed on the screen, press z or i to
• If or
view the previous/next part of the menu.
• Press s to exit the SET UP menu.
Selecting the display notation and number of decimal
places
The calculator has three display notation systems (fi xed decimal
point, scientifi c notation and fl oating point) for displaying calcu-
lation results.
• If ~ 0 0 (TAB) is pressed, "DIG(0-9)?" will be
displayed and the number of decimal places can be set to any
value between 0 and 9.
• If ~ 0 1 (SCI) is pressed, "SIG(0-9)?" will be
displayed and the number of signifi cant digit can be set to any
value between 0 and 9. Entering 0 will set a 10-digit display.
• If a fl oating point number does not fi t in the specifi ed range,
the calculator will display the result in scientifi c notation (expo-
nential notation). See the next section for details.
• The default setting is a fi xed decimal point with two decimal
places.
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