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The small 0 and 3 indicate that flags 00 and 03 are set. These are user flags, with absolutely no predefined significance to the calculator. Another flag (off the top of my head I want to say 29, but I'm sure somebody will correct me soon) controls whether the radix mark is set to the US or European standards (decimal point is period/comma, thousands separator is comma/period). Whichever flag this is, you'll want to toggle it.
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Earlier today, my trusty 41cx apparently went into scientific display mode, and the decimal turned to a comma.
Basically, as already said, this all is a "phenomenon" which has its cause in the flag configuration and is completely harmless, although somewhat annoying.
More interstingly is that those flags were apparently switched inadvertedly. Usually, the flags for the numeric display (40 and 41) cannot be manipulated directly with the standard flag-manipulating commands (SF, CF).
Can you reconstruct what you have done to get this behaviour?
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bill,
some event messed up the internal "REGISTER d" of your 41C. that register holds the status of the 41's system- and user flags.
i had this on rare occasions when plugging / unplugging modules, while leaving the calculator on (no good idea), or on very old machines with flaky internal contacts. just give your machine the standard ON/BACKSPACE treatment to reset all system/user flags to their default status.
hans
