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Read Chapter6 of Advanced User Reference (AUR) first which you can get in HP's official site.
Since I also convert inch to milimeter and vise versa often, I created the following list in CST file for CUSTOM menu.
{
{ "in>mm" \<< '1_in' * '1_mm' CONVERT \>> } @ inch to milimeter
{ "mm>in" \<< '1_mm' * '1_in' CONVERT \>> } @ milimeter to inch
}
@ In your case, 'mm' should be 'cm'.
Store the above list as CST file in HOME directory and press L-Shift + CUSTOM. Then you will find your special menu for converting the above.
In another way to do, install UTOOL made by Carsten Dominik, which is very good unit tool.
http://zon.astro.uva.nl/~dominik/hpcalc/utool28.zip
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I was just figuring this out today! On the 49G, in RPN mode (of course!) one does the following:
First enter: 17 <right-shift> <units> <leng> <in>
That places 17_in on level one of the stack.
Next: 1 <cm>
Finally: <right-shift> <units> <tools> <conve>
Leaving 43.18_cm in level 1.
I'm pretty new to the 49G so I am sure that there are more key-efficent ways of doing this.
Craig