Waste time with a calculator

Waste time with a calculator
Ever been stuck somewhere (Waiting room, waiting on food, math class) and only had a calculator to play with? It happens to me all the time.

At first you may type out some stuff like 99999 X 1.0012874, but stuff like that gets boring very quickly.
Then you may begin to spell stuff like hEllO, but you run out of things to do after that.

I'll do my best to show you how to do some various things on a calculator.

 
Step 1: My calculator:

My main calculator is a CASIO fx-300MS. They are common (Got mine at Walmart ) and have quite a few functions, but are cheap and are usually allowed to be used in the classroom because they are not graphing calculators.

As you can see, mine is beaten and mistreated, bestickered and drawn on, but it still keeps going.

Sorry about the terrible pictures, using the flash made it over-exposed looking, but not using it makes it look fuzzy.

Step 2: The basics:

We probably all know that a calculator can be used for writing certain words.

Many of you have typed 0.1134 into a calculator to get "hEllo".

Pretty much any word with I, S, L, Z, E, O, B, G, and H can be spelled.
This gives many more possibilities than you might expect. Did you know that Eloise can be spelled,
and so can "hobo" and so can "BIOS" (If you're a geek).

I found This site, which has tons of words you can spell on a calculator.

Some calculators have some special letters. Mine has the letters A-F, plus X, Y, and M. I found out that I could get a "P" by pressing shift+nCr. Pi (the symbol) can be substituted for "n".

Though remember, doing math on a calculator can still be fun...