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TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Screen / Interface .................................................................................................................................................3
BUTTONS ON THE CALCULATOR ..................................................................................................................................3
SYMBOLIC CONSTANTS...............................................................................................................................................4
Entering Data ...............................................................................................................................................................4
DATA TYPES ...............................................................................................................................................................4
CONVERTING BETWEEN DATA TYPES (CASTING) ........................................................................................................5
BOOLEAN OPERATORS ...............................................................................................................................................5
RELATIONS .................................................................................................................................................................6
ORDER OF OPERATIONS .............................................................................................................................................6
FUNCTIONS MENU ......................................................................................................................................................7
HISTORY LIST .............................................................................................................................................................8
ERROR MESSAGES .....................................................................................................................................................8
Options Menu ...............................................................................................................................................................9
FUNCTION TEMPLATES ...............................................................................................................................................9
HELP MODE .............................................................................................................................................................. 10
ACCESSING HELP FROM START ................................................................................................................................ 10
SHOW CALCULATION LOG ......................................................................................................................................... 11
FIX - NUMBER OF DECIMAL PLACES .......................................................................................................................... 12
MODE – NORMAL OR SCIENTIFIC/DECIMALS OR FRACTIONS/DEGREES OR RADIANS ................................................ 12
Editing Menu & Tools................................................................................................................................................. 13
LIST EDITOR ............................................................................................................................................................. 13
MATRIX EDITOR ........................................................................................................................................................ 14
SEQUENCE EDITOR................................................................................................................................................... 15
TABLE EDITOR .......................................................................................................................................................... 16
UNIT CONVERTER ..................................................................................................................................................... 16
VARIABLE EDITOR ..................................................................................................................................................... 17
GENERATING A GRAPH FROM THE LIST, MATRIX, SEQUENCE OR TABLE EDITOR ...................................................... 18
Calculus ...................................................................................................................................................................... 18
GRAPHING CALCULUS FUNCTIONS............................................................................................................................ 19
Complex Numbers ..................................................................................................................................................... 20
Consumer Applications.............................................................................................................................................. 21
Date............................................................................................................................................................................. 22
Equations.................................................................................................................................................................... 23
GRAPHING A SINGLE EQUATION................................................................................................................................ 23
GRAPHING A SYSTEM OF LINEAR EQUATIONS ........................................................................................................... 25
Exponential and Logarithmic Functions ................................................................................................................... 25
Finance: Amortization................................................................................................................................................ 26
Finance: Depreciation Template............................................................................................................................... 27
Finance: Time Value of Money (TVM Template)..................................................................................................... 28
Finance: Cash Flow Analysis.................................................................................................................................... 30
Finance: Interest, Bonds and Net Present/Future Values....................................................................................... 31
Hyperbolic Functions ................................................................................................................................................. 33
INVERSE HYPERBOLIC FUNCTIONS ........................................................................................................................... 34
Linear Programming .................................................................................................................................................. 35
GRAPHING LINEAR INEQUALITIES .............................................................................................................................. 36
Lists............................................................................................................................................................................. 36
Lists............................................................................................................................................................................. 37
Matrices ...................................................................................................................................................................... 38
Number Theory Functions......................................................................................................................................... 42
Real Numbers ............................................................................................................................................................ 45
Sequences.................................................................................................................................................................. 46
Statistical Functions................................................................................................................................................... 47
CONFIDENCE INTERVALS .......................................................................................................................................... 47
PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS .................................................................................................................................... 49
GRAPHING PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS .................................................................................................................. 52
STATISTICAL TESTS .................................................................................................................................................. 53
ADDITIONAL STATISTICAL FUNCTIONS....................................................................................................................... 55