How do you calculate?

[shimi]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il>wrote:

> For years, I've been wondering: How do other Unix or Linux users do simple
> calculations?
>
> Do you take out an actual physical calculator (which is of course
> ridiculous)?
> Do you use software that looks like a physical calculator (xcalc, kcalc,
> etc.)?
>
> Or do you use bc? Does anyone actually use bc, which returns "0" as a
> result
> for the calculation "2/3"? :-) Of course, you can use "scale=10" (or the -l
> option to bc) to fix that, but how many first-time users would know that?
> What posessed the person who decided to make scale=0 the default? :-)
>
>

bc on the konsole and kcalc when in need for more 'complex' math ... works
for me! :)

-- Shimi
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