HP 15c Manual
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HP-15C Owner’s Handbook HP Part Number: 00015-90001 Edition 2.4, Sep 2011
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Legal Notice This manual and any examples contained herein are provided “as is” and are subject to change without notice. Hewlett-Packard Company makes no warranty of any kind with regard to this manual, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability non- infringement and fitness for a particular purpose. In this regard, HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained in the manual....
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3 Introduction Congratulations! Whether you are new to HP calculators or an experienced user, you will find the HP-15C a powerful and valuable calculating tool. The HP-15C provides: 448 bytes of program memory (one or two bytes per instruction) and sophisticated programming capability, including conditional and unconditional branching, subroutines, flags, and editing. Four advanced mathematics capabilities: complex number calculations, matrix calculations,...
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4 Contents The HP-15C: A Problem Solver .................................... 12 A Quick Look at v ................................................. 12 Manual Solutions ............................................................ 13 Programmed Solutions ..................................................... 14 Part I: HP-15C Fundamentals ................................ 17 Section 1: Getting Started .......................................... 18 Power On and Off...
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Contents 5 The Automatic Memory Stack and Stack Manipulation ........ 32 Stack Manipulation Functions ........................................ 33 The LAST X Register and K ....................................... 35 Calculator Functions and the Stack ................................. 36 Order of Entry and the v Key ............................... 37 Nested Calculations ..................................................... 38 Arithmetic Calculations With Constants...
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6 Contents Resetting Continuous Memory ........................................ 63 Part II: HP-15C Programming ............................... 65 Section 6: Programming Basics .................................. 66 The Mechanics ............................................................... 66 Creating a Program ..................................................... 66 Loading a Program ...................................................... 66 Intermediate Program Stops...
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Contents 7 Flags .......................................................................... 92 Examples ....................................................................... 93 Example: Branching and Looping ................................... 93 Example: Flags ............................................................ 95 Further Information .......................................................... 97 GoTo .............................................................................
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8 Contents I and e .......................................................... 116 Indirect Display Control ........................................... 116 Part III: HP-15C Advanced Functions .................... 119 Section 11: Calculating With Complex Numbers .......... 120 The Complex Stack and Complex Mode ............................ 120 Creating the Complex Stack .......................................... 120 Deactivating Complex Mode ............................................
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Contents 9 Copying a Matrix ....................................................... 149 One-Matrix Operations ................................................ 149 Scalar Operations ....................................................... 151 Arithmetic Operations .................................................. 153 Matrix Multiplication ................................................... 154 Solving the Equation AX = B .......................................... 156 Calculating the...
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10 Contents Appendix A: Error Conditions .................................... 205 Appendix B: Stack Lift and the LAST X Register ............... 209 Digit Entry Termination .................................................... 209 Stack Lift ........................................................................ 209 Disabling Operations ................................................... 210 Enabling Operations .................................................... 210 Neutral...