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 8
Number bases
Entering and displaying binary integers
You can enter and display integers in one of four fonns:
® decimal (base 10)
* hexadecimal (base 16)
® octal (base 8) or
® binary (base 2).
You use the pound symbol (#) together with a suffix to indicate the base of
a number. The suffixes are:
d (decimal)
h (hexadecimal)
о (octal) and
b (binary).
For example, # 182d, # B6h, # 266o, and # 10110110b are all ways of
representing 182. In this guide, luunbers represented in this way are called
binary integers regardless of their base.
The current base setting detennines which base is used to display
integers.
On the HP 49G, binary integers can take from 1 to 64 bits, depending on
the current wordsize.
To set the base
To set the base, select the appropriate command from the command
catalog (®):
® DEC (to set the base to decimal)
® HEX (to set the base to hexadecimal)
® OCT (to set the base to octal)
® BIN (to set the base to binary).
Number bases
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