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Installation process
Entering numbers
Arithmetic and basic functions
Infinite stack
Decimal numbers
Separators
Command line entering 3 numbers
Space key on R/S
Alpha mode with Shift-Enter
Alpha mode with Long Shift
Right shift with two shifts
Shift on digits and operations while in Alpha mode
Executing a command by typing its name
Catalog with + key
VERSION
Multi-line Text editor
Up and down by shifting
Repeat left and right
Repeat up and down by holding key
Begin and end with xshift
Help
Help on primary functions
Going to main menu
Release information
Accessing topical help with xshift-+
Menus
The top-level menu
Shift and xshift in menu
Going to next and previous in menus (no NXT key)
Previous menu with shift-A
The Tools menu (A key)
Tools menu on empty stack - Another way to access help
Tools menu with a real number
Tools menu with text on the stack
The Modes menu
FIX, ENG and SCI
SIG mode
Fraction marks
Separators
Adjusting the display font size
The system menu
Entering system menu
Saving the calculator state
Restoring another state
Merging states
Returning to the calculator
Saving state quickly with xshift-EXIT
Global variables
RCL bringing the variables menu
Creating a name with XEQ - Auto alpha mode
Storing a variable with STO
Entering a simple program that adds two numbers
Running a program with R/S
R/S as space or EVAL
R/S repetition during editing
R/S help
Increment program
Program evaluation
Recalling vs. evaluating in Vars menu
Editing a program
Storing with the Vars menu
Editing the 'Fact' program
Running Fact 100
Editing Fact 100
The Bases menu
Entering based numbers
Entering hexadecimal directly
Logical operations
Setting the word size to 16
Changing to base 8, 2 or 10
Changing to arbitray base
Entering number in arbitrary base
The tools menu on based number
Help on based numbers
Algebraics
Entering a name with XEQ
Adding 1
INV
SIN
Editing
Evaluation without a global
Evaluation after setting global
Using algebraics to evaluate algebraic expressions
The tools menu on algebraics
Help on algebraics
Expression rewriting
Local variables
Inserting local variables in programs
Inserting local vairables in equations
Efficiency of local variables
Loops
START NEXT
START STEP
FOR NEXT
FOR STEP
WHILE loop
UNTIL loop
Complex numbers
The complex menu
Complex in rectangular form
Complex Arithmetic
Square root of -1
Complex functions
Complex in polar form
Effect of angle change
Internal representation as fraction of pi
The Tools menu on complex numbers
Lists
Concatenating lists
Global operations on items in a list
The tools menu on lists
Vectors
Entering a vector
Adding, subtracting vectors
Multiplying and dividing vectors
Operations between a vector and a constant
Symbolic operations on vectors
Norm of a vector
Inverse on a vector
Applying a function to all elements in a vector
Matrices
Entering a matrix
Matrix multiplication
Matrix division
Operations with a constant
Matrix invert
The tools menu on matrices
Matrix determinant
Matrix transpose
Complex matrices
Symbolic matrices and vectors
Non-rectangular matrices
Matrices with other objects