Casio FX-85ES - how to change answers to decimal?

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  1. Cortez's Avatar
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    Casio FX-85ES - how to change answers to decimal?
    At the moment all my answers are coming out as fractions and fractions are useless to me as I need all my numbers in decimals. How do I get it to give me decimal answers by default? I know I can press the fraction -> decimal button but that gets kinda annoying when you have to press it every time.

    Had a quick look through the instructions and tried a few things that looked like they would work but didn't do anything.

    Anyone know how to do it?
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    Re: Casio FX-85ES - how to change answers to decimal?
    Change "MathIO" to "LineIO" by pressing the buttons [ SHIFT ] followed by [ MODE ] and then the number [ 2 ] for "LineIO".
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    Re: Casio FX-85ES - how to change answers to decimal?
    There is a button like \boxed{S \Leftrightarrow D}
    Last edited by SimonM; 14-03-2009 at 11:44.
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    Re: Casio FX-85ES - how to change answers to decimal?
    there shoulf be a button on your calculator which looks something like S<->D. so when you get an answer and its in fractions press that button and it converts it to decimals and normal numbers. Hope that helps
  5. Cortez's Avatar
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    Re: Casio FX-85ES - how to change answers to decimal?
    (Original post by Plato123)
    Change "MathIO" to "LineIO" by pressing the buttons [ SHIFT ] followed by [ MODE ] and then the number [ 2 ] for "LineIO".
    Thanks, that's perfect

    (Original post by SimonM)
    There is a button like \boxed{S \Leftrightarrow D}
    (Original post by karlwavfc)
    there shoulf be a button on your calculator which looks something like S<->D. so when you get an answer and its in fractions press that button and it converts it to decimals and normal numbers. Hope that helps


    Not being funny but did either of you read the first post?

    (Original post by Cortez)
    At the moment all my answers are coming out as fractions and fractions are useless to me as I need all my numbers in decimals. How do I get it to give me decimal answers by default? I know I can press the fraction -> decimal button but that gets kinda annoying when you have to press it every time.

    Had a quick look through the instructions and tried a few things that looked like they would work but didn't do anything.

    Anyone know how to do it?
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    Re: Casio FX-85ES - how to change answers to decimal?
    press shift and then mode and then press 2 for LINEIO that will have all answers as a decimal by default
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    Re: Casio FX-85ES - how to change answers to decimal?
    u need to press the button that looks like:

    S <-> D

    Its above the DEL button
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    Re: Casio FX-85ES - how to change answers to decimal?
    (Original post by timmo541)
    u need to press the button that looks like:

    S <-> D

    Its above the DEL button
    Heh, fail.

    (Read above posts to see why I said that)
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    Re: Casio FX-85ES - how to change answers to decimal?
    (Original post by nuodai)
    Heh, fail.

    (Read above posts to see why I said that)
    you're right, my bad. didn't read the whole post
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