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Common operations in symbolic view – HP Prime Graphing Calculator User Manual

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Numeric View

The values generated by the
equation can be seen in
Numeric view.
10. Press

M

.

Suppose you want to see just
whole numbers for ; in other
words, you want the increment
between consecutive values in
the column to be 1. You set this up in the Numeric Setup view.

Numeric Setup View

11. Press

SM

.

12. Change the

NUMSTEP

field

to 1.

13. Press

M

to return to

Numeric view.
You will see that the 
column now contains
consecutive integers starting from zero, and the
corresponding values calculated by the equation specified in
Symbolic view are listed in the R1 column.

Common operations in Symbolic view

[Scope: Advanced Graphing, Function, Parametric, Polar,
Sequence, Solve. See dedicated app chapters for information
about the other apps.]
Symbolic view is typically used to define a function or open
sentence that you want to explore (by plotting and/or
evaluating). In this section, the term definition will be used to
cover both functions and open sentences.
Press

Y

to open Symbolic view.

Add a definition

With the exception of the Parametric app, there are 10 fields for
entering definitions. In the Parametric app there are 20 fields, two
for each paired definition.