HP 48gII User Manual

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Notice that, in this instance, soft menu keys

E and F are the only one

with associated commands, namely:

!!CANCL E CANCeL the help facility
!!@@OK#@ F OK to activate help facility for the selected command

If you press the

!!CANCL E key, the HELP facility is skipped, and the calculator

returns to normal display.

To see the effect of using

!!@@OK#@ in the HELP facility, let’s repeat the steps used

above from to the selection of the command ATAN2S in the list of CAS
commands:

@HELP B` ˜ ˜ …(10 times)

Then, press the

!!@@OK#@ F key to obtain information about the command

ATAN2S.

The help facility indicates that the command, or function, ATAN2S replaces
the value of atan(x), the arc tangent of a value x, by its equivalent in terms of
the function asin (arcsine), i.e.,

The fourth and fifth lines in the display provide an example of application of
the function ATAN2S. Line four, namely, ATAN2S(ATAN(X)), is the statement
of the operation to be performed, while line five, namely, ASIN(X/

(X^2+1)),

is the result.

The bottom line in the display, starting with the particle See:, is a reference
line listing other CAS commands related to the command ATAN2S.

Notice that there are six commands associated with the soft menu keys in this
case (you can check that there are only six commands because pressing the

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