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From: salvato@ENUXHA.EAS.ASU.EDU (Vincent H. Salvato)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48.d
Subject: Progarm Flags on HP48sx
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Date: 2 May 91 20:03:35 GMT
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Reply-To: salvato@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Vincent H. Salvato)
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     I have a question regarding writing a program to set or clear a flag	automatically.  I am going into third semester calculus and just got done with
second semester claculus in which the whole class uses HP48sx's.  We seem to	do a lot of calculations in which we either need a real number answer or a
symbolic answer.  I hate having to always check the modes menu and to see if	symbolic is on or not.  I want to write a program that if symbolic is on it
automaticaly turns it off and says "SYM OFF" and in turn if symbolic is already
off I want it to turn it on and say "SYM ON".  I have not written anything with	if statements or anything with some type of checker.  The flag settings for	symbolic is -3, -3 clear returns symbolic result, -3 set returns numeric resultsif anyone has any ideas pleas post or E-mail me.

			-Vince
			-salvato@enuxha.eas.asu.edu