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Sharp EL-9900 User Manual

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Chapter 4: Basic Graphing Features — Basic Keyboard

B FACTOR

Use this menu to set the vertical and horizontal zooming factor.

The factor set under this menu directly affects the zoom rate of

the 3 In and 4 Out sub-menu tools under the ZOOM menu, as

described above.

To set the zooming factor, do the following:

1. Within the

B FACTOR menu,

press

E to

activate the setup

tool.

2. When the “Zoom factor” window appears, the cursor

is automatically placed at “X_Fact=”. The default

zoom factor is 4; enter the required value here.

3. Pressing

E after entering a value will switch the

cursor position to “Y_Fact=”. Enter the required

zooming factor, and press

E.

4. To go back to the ZOOM menu, press the

Z

key.

C POWER

1

x

2

Use this zooming tool when the equation contains a

form of “

x

2

”.

2

x

–1

Use this zooming tool when the equation contains a

form of “

x

-

1

”.

3

x

Use this tool to zoom correctly when the equation

contains a form of “

x

”.

D EXP

1 10

X

Use this tool when the equation contains a form of

10

x

”.

2 log X

Use this tool when the equation contains a form of “log

x

”.