HP-45 Owner's Handbook - Slide Rule Museum

Table of Contents
HP-45 Owner's Handbook
Introduction ..... . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . .. . . .
General Operating Instructions
Fundamental Operations
Getting Started .
Keyboard
Keying in and Entering Numbe rs
Perfo rmi ng Sim ple Arithmeti c ..
Correcting In put Erro rs.
Cl ea ring ..... ........ .
Using Di sp lay and Round in g Options.
Keyi ng in Negative Num be rs ............... . .
Keying in Exponents .
Performing Simpl e Functions.
Find ing Reciprocals
Fi nding Square Roots
Squaring Numbers
Rai sing Numbers to Powers . .. . . . . • . . . ..
Using Pi
Us ing Factori als
Calculat ing Percentage Problems.
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Operational Stack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . 21
Stack Registers . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Manipulating the Stack. 23
Performing Combined Arithmetic Processes . 24
Seri al Cal cu lation ........... . . 24
Ch ained Calculation .. . ...... . 24
Mixed Chained Calculation 25
Last x Register ..... . .. . . . .. . .. . ... . .. .. . . ... .. .
Data Storage Registers
Unrestricted Storage
Registers R, - R • ... ... . . ..• ... .. . . . . • . . • .. . . ..
Restricted Storage . .. . ... .. . .
Registers R, - R,
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Storing and Recalling Data ... .. . .. .. . .. . . . . . . . .
Performing Register Arithmetic.
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