I don't understand the HP-50g, what am I missing?

[ttw]

The "User's Guide" and something like a "Get Started" booklet are online and quite helpful. It's a complicated calculator but rather powerful. I use it a lot (mostly the Emu48 version on a cell phone, I can't get Emu48 working on a PC running Windows 11). I usually sketch out large-scale programs on the 50g before committing to the PC. I did write some number theory stuff; probably not as fast or sophisticated as Pari, but I find Pari rather complicated to interface with programming languages.