I see a lot of wrong info on the the decimal slider. This is how it works:
A is for “Add-mode”. This means that 2 decimals are always assumed. It’s used for adding a lot of 2 decimal numbers, because you’ll never have to press the decimal key.
If you’ve ever worked a credit card terminal and having to enter 200 to get 2.00$, that’s how this setting works.
0-6 are fixed and rounded according to the rounding setting.
The decimal F is for floating. It’ll use the most relevant amount of decimals.
Another funny button is MU which is Mark Up. It’s used with the percentage button. It’s a backward ass way to do percentages. You’ll enter a value and then MU the percentage that you want from the result, instead of the input.
Say you have product that costs 100 and you’ll want to mark it up, so you’ll get 20% of your new sales price as profit. Press 100 MU 20% and it should show 125, which is your sales price, because 25 is the 20% of 125.
It doesn’t make sense to me why anyone ever needed that button.
Actually I found
this site (in German) which says that the MU is for Impact Calculation. Which… I wouldn’t even begin to try to understand how I’d use.
Most of the other buttons appears to be for the internal carrier (aka memory).
Lets say that the main display is one column in Excel. The memory is then a second column, where you can pull or push the displayed result in a variety of ways.
This allows you to do some calculation, throw the result into memory, clear he entry and do another calculation and add that to the previously stored result and such.
The slider labeled with the sum sign is a grand total. It’ll cause all your results to be summarized. I’m not sure how to display it. Maybe it’s only shown on the print.
The MU button doesn’t “do” anything by itself. You’ll need to press 100. Press MU. press 20. Press %. Or maybe the sequence is different. It would be nice with a manual.
Yeah, that makes sense, though the calculator doesn’t have a printer unless by print you mean something I’m too much of a scrub to understand!
The MU button doesn’t “do” anything by itself. You’ll need to press 100. Press MU. press 20. Press %. Or maybe the sequence is different. It would be nice with a manual.
Yeah I tried doing these things in different orders but they don’t seem to affect one another in any way. Maybe it needs one of the switches in a certain spot or something.
A manual would definitely be a nice thing. Sadly I haven’t been able to find one.
I see a lot of wrong info on the the decimal slider. This is how it works:
A is for “Add-mode”. This means that 2 decimals are always assumed. It’s used for adding a lot of 2 decimal numbers, because you’ll never have to press the decimal key. If you’ve ever worked a credit card terminal and having to enter 200 to get 2.00$, that’s how this setting works.
0-6 are fixed and rounded according to the rounding setting.
The decimal F is for floating. It’ll use the most relevant amount of decimals.
Another funny button is MU which is Mark Up. It’s used with the percentage button. It’s a backward ass way to do percentages. You’ll enter a value and then MU the percentage that you want from the result, instead of the input. Say you have product that costs 100 and you’ll want to mark it up, so you’ll get 20% of your new sales price as profit. Press 100 MU 20% and it should show 125, which is your sales price, because 25 is the 20% of 125. It doesn’t make sense to me why anyone ever needed that button.
Actually I found this site (in German) which says that the MU is for Impact Calculation. Which… I wouldn’t even begin to try to understand how I’d use.
That’s some great info!
The back of it says it’s been used at a local insurance company. Wonder if that button is useful there somehow.
Do you know what the rightmost row is about? And the two buttons above C and CE?
edit: the MU function doesn’t seem to do anything. Maybe I’m missing something.
Most of the other buttons appears to be for the internal carrier (aka memory). Lets say that the main display is one column in Excel. The memory is then a second column, where you can pull or push the displayed result in a variety of ways. This allows you to do some calculation, throw the result into memory, clear he entry and do another calculation and add that to the previously stored result and such. The slider labeled with the sum sign is a grand total. It’ll cause all your results to be summarized. I’m not sure how to display it. Maybe it’s only shown on the print.
The MU button doesn’t “do” anything by itself. You’ll need to press 100. Press MU. press 20. Press %. Or maybe the sequence is different. It would be nice with a manual.
Yeah, that makes sense, though the calculator doesn’t have a printer unless by print you mean something I’m too much of a scrub to understand!
Yeah I tried doing these things in different orders but they don’t seem to affect one another in any way. Maybe it needs one of the switches in a certain spot or something.
A manual would definitely be a nice thing. Sadly I haven’t been able to find one.