HP 50g Graphing Calculator User Manual

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Detailed explanation on the use of the help facility for the CAS is presented in
Chapter 1. To return to the Equation Writer, press the

@EXIT soft menu key. Press

the ` key to exit the Equation Writer.

Using the editing functions BEGIN, END, COPY, CUT and PASTE
To facilitate editing, whether with the Equation Writer or on the stack, the
calculator provides five editing functions, BEGIN, END, COPY, CUT and PASTE,
activated by combining the right-shift key (‚) with keys (2,1), (2,2), (3,1),
(3,2), and (3,3), respectively. These keys are located in the leftmost part of
rows 2 and 3. The action of these editing functions are as follows:

BEGIN: marks the beginning of a string of characters for editing
END:

marks the ending of a string of characters for editing

COPY: copies the string of characters selected by BEGIN and END
CUT:

cuts the string of characters selected by BEGIN and END

PASTE: pastes a string of characters, previously copied or cut, into the current

cursor position

To see and example, lets start the Equation Writer and enter the following
expression (used in an earlier exercise):

2 / R3 ™™ * ~‚m + „¸\ ~‚m

™™ * ‚¹ ~„x + 2 * ~‚m * ~‚c

~„y ——— / ~‚t Q1/3

The original expression is the following:

We want to remove the sub-expression x+2

⋅λ⋅Δ

y from the argument of the LN

function, and move it to the right of the

λ

in the first term. Here is one

possibility: ˜ššš———‚ªšš—*‚¬
The modified expression looks as follows:

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