Using fractions, Accessing the display history, Clearing the display history – HP 39gs User Manual

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Accessing the
display history

Pressing

enables the highlight bar in the display

history. While the highlight bar is active, the following
menu and keyboard keys are very useful:

Clearing the
display history

It’s a good habit to clear the display history (

CLEAR

) whenever you have finished working in HOME. It

saves calculator memory to clear the display history.
Remember that all your previous inputs and results are
saved until you clear them.

Using fractions

To work with fractions in HOME, you set the number
format to

Fraction or Mixed Fraction, as follows:

Setting Fraction
mode

1. In HOME, open the HOME MODES input form.

MODES

Key

Function

,

Scrolls through the display history.

Copies the highlighted expression to
the position of the cursor in the edit line.

Displays the current expression in
standard mathematical form.

Deletes the highlighted expression from
the display history, unless there is a
cursor in the edit line.

CLEAR

Clears all lines of display history and
the edit line.

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