How do you calculate?

[Steve G.]

Second the use of python, either 2/3. for decimal response, or use a
variable an assign the result to it with the equal sign, then you can use it
for more stuff later.

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 7:41 AM, shlomo bauer <shlomobauer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sammy is wondering (for years) how unix/linux users do simple calculations.
>
> Many people write their own calculator language - in the tradition of
> hoc.  Anyone who actually
> enters in the code for hoc will discover something quite interesting.
>
> Other people use languages like Nickle (http://nickle.org/); I
> typically use haskell and in the past, I used ocaml and further in the
> past, I used sml - still my favorite.
>
> Another approach is to use a spreadsheet.  You can compute recursive
> functions using !.
>
> My favorite,  for "simple" cacluations, is to compute an approximate
> answer and to do so, I don't generally need anything except a sense of
> the scale of the numbers.
>
> Shlomo
>
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