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The keyboard – HP 38g Graphing Calculator User Manual

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Demo

Home

Power

To see a demonstration of the HP 38G's features, type DEMO

into the edit line in Home. (Press |

home

| |

a

...

z

|D |

a

...

z

|E

|A...z|M |A...z|0 I ENTER|.) To Stop the demo, press any key.

Home is the calculator’s home base. If you want to do

calculations, or you want to quit the current activity (such as

an aplet, a program, or an editor), press |

home

|.

To save power, the calculator turns itself off after several

minutes of inactivity. All stored and displayed information are

saved.

If you see the ((*)) annunciator or the

Low Bat

message,

then the calculator needs fresh batteries. See chapter 9.

The Keyboard

Shifted

The ■

(shift)

key is a shifted keystroke that accesses the

Keystrokes

operation printed in turquoise above a key. For instance, to

®

access the Modes screen, press ■, then |

home

|. (You do not

need to hold down the ■ .) This is depicted in this manual as

“press

■[MODES]

."

To cancel a shift, press ■ again.

Alpha Shift

The alphabetic keys are also shifted keystrokes. For instance,

l^ -^l

to type z, press |

A...Z

| (T|. (The letters are printed in light

green to the lower right of each key.)

To cancel Alpha, press |

A...Z

| again.

• For a lowercase letter, press ■ |

A...Z

|

.

• For a string of letters, hold down |

A...Z

| while typing.

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