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Re: [50g] Re: 50g- How do you convert decimals into fractions?

2007-05-10 by Don Hart

I bet the ->Q and ->Q(pi) in menu 93.02 are still
available. Though I don't know if there's an easy way
to get to that menu without the "menu" command.

--- Keith Fix <kefix@...> wrote:

> Very cool!
> 
> Note, you can get fractions that are _not quite_ the
> number you expect.
> 
> Still, this is an excellent function. We gotta get
> this calculator
> back on the Professional Engineers Exam approved
> list!
> 
> --- In 50g@yahoogroups.com, "Juan C." <jcbuchin@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > There is one function that is very useful in your
> HP 50g, it is the XQ 
> > function; in RPN after you get a result that comes
> in decimal form, 
> > press X [ALPHA] Q [ENTER] the function look for a
> fraction form for 
> > that number, a combination of a fraction and PI or
> a irrational form 
> > like square_root(1/2). So go ahead a experiment
> with that function.
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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