Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!alonzo
From: alonzo@microsoft.UUCP (Alonzo GARIEPY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: hp48sx fractions ?
Message-ID: <53555@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 90 02:39:31 GMT
References: <2461@unocss..unl.edu>
Reply-To: alonzo@microsoft.UUCP (Alonzo GARIEPY)
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In article <2461@unocss..unl.edu> dent@unocss..unl.edu (Local Submission) writes:
> I've really appreciated the various reviews and discussion of the 48 here;
> I plan on buying one pretty soon :-)  But, I was wondering: can anyone be
> more specific about what capabilities the 48 has w/r/t fractions?  Will it
> handle them on one line like the new units, or..?  What can you do with them?
> Etc?

You can use fractions on the 48 in the following way:

	Put fractions on the stack:   '1+3/4'
				      '2+5/8'

	Press the + key:              '1+3/4+(2+5/8)'
	Press the EVAL key:           4.375

	Press the ->Q key:            '35/8'

Alternatively if the -3 flag (numerical results) is set:

	Put fractions on the stack:   '1+3/4'
	                              '2+5/8'

	Press the + key:              4.375
	Press the ->Q key:            '35/8'

Or, you can just use algebra:

	Type '1+3/4 + 2 + 5/8' into the command line
	Press EVAL and then ->Q


in addition, there is a ->Qpi function that works like ->Q except
that it looks for a factor of pi and gives you decent fractional
radians (or anything else that has a factor of pi).  The word pi
in the previous sentence actually means the greek letter of that
name.

alonzo