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Next, you multiply the intermediate answers together for the final answer.
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Notice that you didn’t have to write down or remember the intermediate
answers before you multiplied. The HP-41C automatically stacked up the
intermediate results for you and brought them out on a last-in, first-out
basis when it was time to multiply.
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No matter how complicated a problem may look, it can always be reduced
to a series of one- and two-number operations.
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Now try these problems. Remember to work through them as you would with
pencil and paper, but don’t worry about intermediate answers—they
are handled automatically by the HP-41C.
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465.0000
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0.3030
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180.9972
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4.0000
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Before You Continue...
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Now that you’ve learned how to use the basic features of the calculator, you
can begin to fully appreciate the benefits of the Hewlett-Packard logic system.
With this system, you enter number using the parenthesis-free, unambiguous method
called RPN.
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It is the RPN system that gives you all of these advantages while you are
using the HP-41C:
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