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From: TDSTRONG%MTUS5.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Tim Strong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: RE: Alternate format for polar vectors on HP-48sx?
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Date: 17 Feb 91 04:43:07 GMT
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In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 14 Feb 1991 20:39 CST
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>        I posted this about a week ago and havn't seen any responses to it.
>Since we were having all sorts of news problems at the time, I'm not sure
>if it didn't get out, or if it's simply that nobody responded.  At any
>rate, here goes again (sorry if you've seen this already).
>
>        Is there any way to make a HP-48sx display 2-D vectors, when in
>polar mode, with the phase angle normalized to 0 <= theta < 360 instead of
>the standard -180 < theta <= 180?

I'm faily sure there isn't any way built in.  There isn't a flag for it and
thats probably where it would be.

Fortunately it will let you enter them that way.  Incidentally, not that
I'm rapping on you but is there a particular reason for wanting them that way.
Some strange calculation method or something.  Doesn't seem too hard when
writing down answers to just add 360 to the HP result?

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