User Guide

4: Currency Exchange Calculation 55
File name : 17BII-Plus-Manual-E-PRINT-030709 Print data : 2003/7/11
Table 4–1. The CURRX Menu
Menu Key Description
Curr1 Current currency#1;stores or calculates the number of units
of this currency
Curr2 Currency currency#2;stores or calculates the number of
units of this currency
7 #
Stores or calculates the exchange rate between the two
current currencies. The rate is expressed as the number of
units of currency #2 equivalent to 1 unit of currency #1.
8
Stores the current currency #1, currency #2, and RATE.
9
Recalls a previously stored pair of currencies and RATE.
:
Selects a new set of currencies.
Selecting a Set of Currencies
To select a pair of currencies:
1. Press
:
to display the menu of currencies. Press more, if
necessary, to see additional currencies ( see table 4–2 ).
2. Press a menu key to select currency #1.
3. Press a menu key to select currency #2. RATE is automatically reset to
1.0000.
4. Enter an exchange rate. There are two ways enter the RATE :
! Calculate the rate from a known equivalency (see the
example ”Calculating an Exchange Rate,” page 57.). Calculating an
exchange rate is usually the easier way to enter a correct rate, since
the order in which you selected the two currencies doesn’t mater.
! Store the exchange rate by keying in the value and pressing (see
“Storing an Exchange Rate” on page 58).