How do you calculate?

How do you calculate?

Ori Idan ori at helicontech.co.il
Thu May 20 15:26:38 IDT 2010


I mostly use grpn which emulates a RPN calculator, I am used to the RPN
system from old HP calculators.

-- 
Ori Idan


On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il> wrote:

> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 02:55:23PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> > For years, I've been wondering: How do other Unix or Linux users do
> simple
> > calculations?
>
> [snip]
>
> > So I was wondering - how come there isn't more pressure on the Linux
> > distributions to include a decent and convenient calculator language?
> > Or do people consider what is available decent enough already?
>
> How about apcalc (http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/)?
>
> $ calc
> C-style arbitrary precision calculator (version 2.12.3.3)
> Calc is open software. For license details type:  help copyright
> [Type "exit" to exit, or "help" for help.]
>
> ; 2/3
>    ~0.66666666666666666667
> ;
>
> baruch
>
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