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From: adams@hpfelg.HP.COM (John Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Trouble with HP12c
Message-ID: <950002@hpfelg.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Apr 89 22:58:59 GMT
References: <473@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM>
Organization: HP Elec. Design Div. -FtCollins
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> Help.  Someone in my office has an HP12C that has started displaying numbers
> "European" fashion:  Thousands separated by periods and fraction separated
> from integer by a comma.  I can find nothing in the manual indicating
> how to switch it back.  Any ideas?

  To  toggle  the  mode,  hold  down  the  '.'  key  while  turning  the
  calculator  on.  The 10(?)  series  all  behave the same way.  The 28s
  has a function key defined in the MODE menu to change the radix.


  John Adams