Making corrections, Clearing errors, Fixing number of decimal places displayed – HP 6S User Manual

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Making corrections

Õ

Press to delete the last number entered.

Ô

Press to remove the displayed value, but retain the calculation being performed.
Press after the arithmetic operator to cancel the entire calculation.

5+5+5+6Ф5=

20.

5+5+5+Ф=

0.

Clearing errors

Ô

Press to clear an error (indicated by “-E-“ in the display)—eg, an overflow error—and retain
data in the memory.

¡

Press to reset the calculator and clear the memory (solar model only).

Fixing the number of decimal places displayed

I¼

Press after your arithmetic operation, or after you press ¡, to set the number of decimal

2

places displayed (the number you press is the number of decimal places you want to
display). The calculator rounds the number in the display but maintains full precision internally.

I

Press to reset the floating decimal point.

¼.

Setting the display to scientific notation

I

Press to set the display to scientific notation and express the number as a power of 10—eg,

½

.0043 is displayed as 4.3.

-03

to represent 4.3×10

-3

.

I

Press to reset the display to the floating format.

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