HP 39gs Master Guide

The
PLOT view is used to display the function as a graph…
key. This gives access to a
number of other useful tools allowing further analysis of the function.
Some of these tools have their own sub-menus.
At the bottom of the
PLOT view is the
The
PLOT SETUP view controls the settings for the PLOT view…
The
NUM SETUP view controls the settings for the NUM table view…
Although these views are superficially different in other aplets, the basic idea is usually similar.
Having said that aplets are best thought of as “working environments”, it is equally true that aplets are
essentially programs, with the standard ones simply being built into the calculator. This is a programmable
calculator, having its own programming language and able to perform quite sophisticated tasks.
Unless you particularly want to learn about the programming language, there is no reason why you should
worry about it. The standard aplets will cover all of your normal requirements in mathematics.
However one of the great strengths of the hp 39gs and hp 40gs is their ability to “download” additional
aplets from other calculators and from the Internet. See page
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HP 39gs Specifications

General

Type	Scientific
Form factor	Pocket
Product color	Gray
Internal memory	0.256 MB

Weight and Dimensions

Weight	249 g
Dimensions (WxDxH)	187 x 94 x 31 mm