<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Nadav Har'El <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nyh@math.technion.ac.il">nyh@math.technion.ac.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
For years, I've been wondering: How do other Unix or Linux users do simple<br>
calculations?<br>
<br>
Do you take out an actual physical calculator (which is of course ridiculous)?<br>
Do you use software that looks like a physical calculator (xcalc, kcalc, etc.)?<br>
<br>
Or do you use bc? Does anyone actually use bc, which returns "0" as a result<br>
for the calculation "2/3"? :-) Of course, you can use "scale=10" (or the -l<br>
option to bc) to fix that, but how many first-time users would know that?<br>
What posessed the person who decided to make scale=0 the default? :-)<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>bc on the konsole and kcalc when in need for more 'complex' math ... works for me! :)<br><br>-- Shimi <br></div></div><br></div>