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Hello, i have always used Casio calculators now i bought the HP Prime & i have a simple question.
It is possible to change the number format (only the result) to engineering with one button?
I know it is possible to change the number format but it's tedious to change it entering to settings (i not always want the result in that way)
Thanks
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You can write a short program to do this, using the reserved settings variable HFormat.
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Hello Michael, thanks for the answer.
I have done this:
EXPORT eng(X)
BEGIN
LOCAL ans;
ans:=X;
HFormat:=3;
RETURN ans;
END;
it works fine but i have two problems:
1.I want to assign it to a button, like to be at CAS mode, the touch button "simplif" to have a button "eng"... is that possible?
2. I don't want that it changes the mode which i'm working.
In order to do that i've tried to put a HFormat:=0; after the RETURN but that didn't work.
Thanks :)
Edited: 2 Nov 2013, 1:45 p.m.
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Maybe this could be added to the time/date/battery popup. Just noticed you can change the angle setting there (degrees or radians) via touching. I switch formats often going from scientific to financial and back again. Somewhat more tedious than it probably should be.
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