Annunciators, Shift key, Annunciator status – HP 10B User Manual

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To

dear all

memory and

reset calculator inodes, press and hold down O,

then press and hold down both and When you release all three,

all memory is cleared. The ALL CLr message is displayed.

Annunciators

Annunciators are symbols in the display that indicate the status of the

calculator.

Annunciator

Status

Shift Is active: when a key is pressed, the function
labeled in yellow above the key, is executed

(below).

liNPUTi

has been oressed. or two values have

been entered or returned (page 25).

PEND

An arithmetic operator is pending ((+). for exam­

ple).

BEGIN

Begin mode is active (page 53).

Battery power is low (page 118).

Shift Key

ooaoQu

ooaoocH

dDOOOO

ooooo

aaooo

• OOCDO

□ oooo

All of the HP-lOB keys have a second or “shifted” function

printed in yellow above the key. The yellow shift key (|) is

used to access these functions.

When you pres.s (he .shift annunciator is displayed

to indicate that the shifted functions arc active. To turn the

annunciator off, press

I

again.

For example, press | followed by ED (also shov^n BED) to multiply a

number in the display by itself.

To perform consecutive shifted operations, hold down the shift key while

pressing the desired keys.

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1: Getting Started

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