Reusing numbers with last x – HP 33s User Manual

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RPN: The Automatic Memory Stack

2–9

Example:

Suppose you made a mistake while calculating

16

× 19 = 304

There are three kinds of mistakes you could have made:

Wrong

Calculation:

Mistake:

Correction:

16

‘

19

…

Wrong

function

{  ›
{  z

15

‘

19

z

Wrong

first

number 16

{  z

16

‘

18

z

Wrong second number

{  q

19

z

Reusing Numbers with LAST X

You can use

{ 

to reuse a number (such as a constant) in a calculation.

Remember to enter the constant second, just before executing the arithmetic
operation, so that the constant is the last number in the X–register, and therefore
can be saved and retrieved with

{ 

.

Example:

Calculate

3947

.

52

3947

.

52

704

.

96

+

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