ENG Format

[jhallen]

(12-05-2022 01:40 AM)Joe Horn Wrote:  Instead of SHOW, press the right-cursor key. This scrolls long results 14 characters to the left, which lets you see what was missing on the right. IMHO, this was a silly design decision on HP's part, but at least it works.

Ah you are right, show does not do what I thought (it shows the mantissa, excluding the exponent).

It's unfortunate that any case where the mantissa doesn't end in zeros, then the result of pressing eng-> or <-eng will not fit on the screen. Even if you were in Sci or Fix mode, then pressing these always shows all digits.

But if you use Eng mode (which is in the display menu) instead of the operator keys, it works OK.

HP-33s just shows fewer digits of the mantissa, so that the exponent will fit.