Engineering Notation Display - HP -11C Owner's Handbook Manual

70 Section 4: Display Control
Engineering Notation Display
(engineering) displays numbers in an engineering notation
format that operates the same as notation format except:
¢ Engineering notation shows all exponents in multiples of
three.
e The number of digits specified for the display setting refers to
the number of significant digits you want to appear after the
leading digit.
—12.34567-09
v
Sign of 7-Digit Sign of Exponent
Number Mantissa Exponent
In engineering notation, the first significant digit is always
present in the display. The number key you press after
specifies the number of additional significant digits to which you
want the display to be rounded. For example:
Keystrokes Display
.012345 0.012345
1 12. -03 Engineering notation.
Display is rounded to one
significant digit after the
leading digit. Power of 10
is proper multiple of three.
3 12.35 -03 Displayisrounded to
third significant digit
after the leading digit.
[T)[ENG)6 12.34500-03
0 10. -03 Display is rounded to first
significant digit.
Notice that in display mode the decimal automatically shifts
to maintain the exponent of 10 as a multiple of three, as in the case
of the following example: