Calculated Industries 8545 - Manual (Page 23)

ple, “10,000,000 mm” cannot be dis-
played because it is out of the range of the
7-digit display, so “10,000 m” will be dis-
played instead. This auto-ranging also
applies to other dimensional units, such as
inches to feet, feet to yards, etc.
Estimating Materials
Calculating Lumber
How many 2 feet 2 inch pieces can be
made from fifteen 10 foot boards?
Steps Keystrokes Display
Clear calculator [On/C] [On/C] 0.
Enter board length 10 [Feet] 10
FEET
Divide by [÷] 2 [Feet] 2 [Inch]
smaller cuts [=] 4.615385
(or 4 whole boards)
Mult. by total # of
10 foot boards 4 [x] 15 [=] 60
(2 feet 2 inch pieces)
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