HP 50g Graphing Calculator User Manual

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IF x<3 THEN

x

2

ELSE

1-x

END

While this simple construct works fine when your function has only two
branches, you may need to nest IF…THEN…ELSE…END constructs to deal with
function with three or more branches. For example, consider the function

Here is a possible way to evaluate this function using IF… THEN … ELSE …
END constructs:

IF x<3 THEN

x

2

ELSE

IF x<5 THEN

1-x

ELSE

IF x<3

π THEN

sin(x)

ELSE

IF x<15 THEN

exp(x)

ELSE

-2

END

END

END

END

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