HP HP-28S - CATALOG Menu; UNITS Menu

HP-28S
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CATALOG Menu
General Displays a list of all available commands in alphabetical order.
Press a character to jump to the next command that starts with this
character.
NEXT, PREV Go to next/previous command
SCAN Automatically display all entries one after the other. SCAN will be replaced
by STOP which can be used to stop the scan.
Not available with some HP-28S versions!
USE Display the arguments that the command expects on the stack.
This also brings up its own NEXT/PREV menu to scroll thru different
argument sets.
FETCH Bring the command name into the edit line.
QUIT Quit the catalog
UNITS Menu
General UNITS is not a menu but a catalog of all available built-in units.
• Use PREV/NEXT to step thru the list.
• Use SCAN to let the HP-28S step thru the units catalog. Use STOP to
halt the scan. Not available on all HP-28S versions .
• Press a character to jump to the next unit which starts with this
character.
• Press "1" to jump to the last entry.
• For every unit the value and the constituting SI units are given.
• Use FETCH to bring the unit name into the command line.
• Use quit to close the UNITS Menu.
SI base units Quantity Unit Abbreviation
Length Meter m
Mass Kilograms kg
Time Seconds s
Electric current Ampere A
Temperature Kelvin °K
Luminous intensity Candela cd
Amount of substance Mol mol
CONVERT Use this command to convert between units:
100 "m" "ft" CONVERT results in 328.08 "ft"
Note that the converted number sits in stack level 2 and the new unit
string in stack level 1.
Provided no variables m and ft exist this would also work:
100 m ft CONVERT
Unit string • The string defining the units may consist of a product of multiple
elementary units:
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