[wp-34s] h.mmss number entry

[Dieter]

(03-31-2017 03:23 AM)BarryMead Wrote:  "ahagele" is right. There seems to be no conversion function from times entered on
the keyboard in hours, minutes, and seconds to hours and fractional hours format.

Of course there is. But you have to know how to use it. There is no key labelled →H or →H.MS.
On the 34s there are many conversion functions avaiable through the [→] (convert) key right beside the [D].

(03-31-2017 03:23 AM)BarryMead Wrote:  For instance on an HP-15C if you enter 1.3 and press >Hours it gives you 1.5 converting the 30 minutes into half an hour. I don't think there is a similar conversion function on the WP-34S is there?

Press 1.3 [→] [f] [H.d] and the display shows →HR while you hold down the last key. ;-) The opposite direction is available with [→] H.MS which calls the →HMS function.

And there is more:
[→] [g] [RAD] converts from the current angle unit to radians (→RAD function).
[→] [g] [DEG] converts from the current angle unit to degrees (→DEG function).
[→] [g] [GRAD] converts from the current angle unit to grads (→GRAD function).

In these cases the [g] can even be omitted, so [→] [RAD] is fine as well.

Suppose you are in radians mode and the result of a calculation is an angle of 0,6 rad. What's this in degrees, minutes and seconds?

[→] [g] [DEG] => 34,3775°
[→] [f] [H.MS] => 34°22'39"

So the functions are there, and there are even some nice shortcuts for using them. But you have to know them, they are not intuitive.
That's why for everyday work I prefer my 35s. Or the 31s. The latter has the same conversion key [→] but H.MS+ and H.MS– are directly on the keyboard.

Dieter