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Intermediate program stops, Running a program – HP 15c User Manual

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Section 6: Programming Basics

Keystrokes Display

2

002- 2

*

003- 20

9

004- 9

Given h in the X-register,
lines 002 to 008 calculate

.

005- 48

8

006- 8

9.8

2h

.

÷

007- 10

¤

008- 11

Program End. There are three possible endings for a program:

| n (return) will end a program, return to line 000, and halt.

¦ will stop a program without moving to line 000.

The end of program memory contains an automatic n.

Keystrokes

Display

|n

009- 43 32

Optional if this is the last
program in memory.

Intermediate Program Stops

Use ´ ©

(pause) as a program instruction to momentarily stop a

program and display an intermediate result. (Use more than

one

© for a

longer pause.)

Use a ¦ (run/stop) instruction to stop the program indefinitely. The
program will remain positioned at that line. You can resume program
execution (from that line) by pressing ¦ during Run mode, that is, from
the keyboard.

Running a Program

Run Mode. Switch back to Run mode when you are done programming:
| ¥. Program execution must take place in Run mode.