Ah, I did look at the owner's manuals for the 17BII and 19BII, but
didn't find anything on those functions. What first came to my
mind were "Least" and "Greatest". Pages 10 through 22 of the
"Technical Applications" manual for the 27S and 19B have
information on them, and it turns out that they're "LET" and "GET"
functions.
Not having one of those calculators, I'm still not entirely clear
on what those functions do, or just why I'd want to use them.
The LET function rather reminds me of RPL's | (where) function,
but as for the GET function, nothing comes to mind, but also see
the related QUOTE and APPLY functions.
Some uses of |, QUOTE, and APPLY are discussed in HP-48
Insights Part II, Problem Solving Resources, available on
the Museum CD-ROM set / DVD. Also, in general, see chapter 14,
HP Solve in Insights.
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Your second question, "FIFA?", is an abbreviation for: Federation
of International Football Associations, which refers to the World
Cup Soccer Tournament taking place now in
Germany.
That explains it. I don't follow such "spectator sports", but
usually I can't help being at least somewhat aware of them. But
soccer doesn't get much news coverage in the U.S.A.; sort of a
cross between "kickball" and hockey, isn't it?
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Alternatively, I guess FIFA could stand for "First In First Aus"
:-)
Strangely enough, I recognized the resemblance to "First In, First
Out", and "First In, First Aus" was the first thing that came to
mind, although it's a mixed language phrase.
Regards,
James