Owner's manual
Table Of Contents
- Material covered
- The HP 49G documentation set
- Chapter 1
- Entering commands
- Keyboard entry
- Subject-specific menus
- Displaying system Flags
- Setting and clearing Flags
- User Flags
- Chapter 3
- Command line operations
- Activating the command line
- Positioning the cursor
- Helpful commands and sub-menus
- Selecting characters
- Copy, cut, and paste
- Editing the command Line
- Command Line information
- Chapter 4
- Using the stack
- Example stack calculations
- Chapter 5
- Matrices and linear algebra
- Matrix Writer operations
- Advanced matrix operations
- Creating special matrices
- Assembling matrices
- To assemble a matrix by rows From a series of vectors
- To assemble a matrix by columns From a series of vectors
- To assemble a matrix with a particular diagonal From a vector
- To assemble a matrix From a sequence oF elements
- To disassemble a matrix into its elements
- To disassemble a matrix into row vectors
- To disassemble a matrix into column vectors
- To extract the vector oF diagonals From a matrix
- To insert one or more new rows into a matrix
- To insert one or more new columns into an array
- To extract a particular row From an array
- To extract a particular column From an array
- Swapping rows and columns
- Extracting and replacing elements oF matrices
- More matrix arithmetic
- To change the sign of each element in a matrix
- To multiply a matrix and vector
- To divide an array by a square matrix
- To combine two real matrices into a complex matrix
- To split a complex matrix into two real matrices
- To conjugate each element of a complex matrix
- To extract the matrix of real parts from a complex matrix
- To extract the matrix of imaginary parts From a complex matrix
- Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
- To compute the eigenvalues For a square matrix
- To compute the eigenvalues and eigenvectors For a square matrix
- To compute the singular values oF a matrix
- To decompose or factor a matrix
- Overview of the Units application
- Unit objects
- Converting units
- Calculating with units
- Working with temperature units
- Chapter 7 Constants Library
- To view the constants library
- To copy a constant to the stack or history
- To include a constant in an algebraic expression
- Chapter 8 Number bases
- Entering and displaying binary integers
- To set the base
- To set the wordsize
- To recall the current wordsize
- To enter a binary integer
- To add, subtract, multiply, or divide two binary integers
- To find the negative of a binary integer
- To convert a binary integer to a diFFerent number base
- To convert a binary integer to a real number
- To convert a real number to a binary integer
- Using Boolean operators
- Manipulating bits and bytes
- List Processing
- Applying a Function or program to a List
- List Manipulations
- Chapter 10
- Advanced plotting options Labelling and relocating the axes
- Plotting programs
- Plotting range vs. display range
- To check the current size oF PICT
- To use computed values for plotting or display ranges
- Saving and Restoring Plots
- Chapter 11
- How memory is structured
- Accessing port contents
- Backup objects
- Using data in backup objects
- How the HP 49G manages memory
- To list a port’s contents, and find Free memory
- Chapter 12
- Date and time arithmetic Date and time Formats
- Date and time tools
- Calculating with dates
- Calculating with times
- Chapter 13 Customization
- Creating menus
- User mode
- Chapter 14
- Computer Algebra Commands
- Alphabetical command list
- 1 q
- Index
• Chapter 14, Computer algebra commands describes each of the
computer algebra commands that the calculator contains, and what
each command does.
The HP 49G documentation set
The HP 49G docmnentation set is a mixture of hard copy documentation
and documentation available from the HP Calculators web site.
You can find all of the documentation for the HP 49G on the HP
Calculators web site, at the following address:
http://www.hp.com/calculators/graphing/49g_info.html
The HP 49G documentation set is made up of the following components:
• User’s Guide, available witli the calculator.
• Pocket Guide, available with the calculator.
« Advanced Topics, being chapters 1 to 13 of this manual, and available
from the web site.
® CAS Commands, being chapter 14 of this manual, and available from
the web site.
® Other Commands A to F, available from the web site.
® Other Commands G to P, available from the web site.
® Other Commands Q to Z, available from the web site.
NOTICE
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© Hewlett-Packard Company 1999. All rights reseiwed.
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