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HP 39g Graphing Calculator User Manual

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Contents

Preface

Manual conventions............................................................................. P-1
Notice................................................................................................... P-2

1 Getting started

On/off, cancel operations..................................................................... 1-1

The display........................................................................................... 1-2
The keyboard........................................................................................1-3

Menus................................................................................................... 1-8
Input forms........................................................................................... 1-9
Mode settings....................................................................................... 1-9

Setting a mode.............................................................................. 1-11

Aplets (E-lessons).............................................................................. 1-11

Aplet library..................................................................................1-15

Aplet views................................................................................... 1-15
Aplet view configuration.............................................................. 1-17

Mathematical calculations..................................................................1-18

Using fractions....................................................................................1-24

Complex numbers...............................................................................1-27

Catalogs and editors........................................................................... 1-28
Differences between the HP 38G and the HP 39G/40G.....................1-29

2 Aplets and their views

Aplet views.......................................................................................... 2-1

About the Symbolic view............................................................... 2-1
Defining an expression (Symbolic view)....................................... 2-1

Evaluating expressions................................................................... 2-3

About the Plot view........................................................................ 2-5

Setting up the plot (Plot view setup).............................................. 2-5

Exploring the graph........................................................................ 2-7

Other views for scaling and splitting the graph............................ 2-14
About the numeric view................................................................2-16

Setting up the table (numeric view setup).................................... 2-17

Exploring the table of numbers.....................................................2-18
Building your own table of numbers............................................ 2-19

“Build Your Own” menu keys...................................................... 2-20
Example: plotting a circle.............................................................2-21

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