How do you calculate?

[Omer Zak]

On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 14:55 +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> Do you take out an actual physical calculator (which is of course ridiculous)?

Not necessarily.
I have a simple calculator, powered by photovoltaic cells.
For simple additions and multiplications, I use it.  It may be
considered as an extra keyboard+display, separate from those of the
computer.

> Do you use software that looks like a physical calculator (xcalc, kcalc, etc.)?

When I need more complicated calculations or copy&paste, I have been
using:
- Python in a shell
- bc (for dec <=> hex conversions)
- xcalc
- gnumeric
According to mood and needs.

                                                    --- Omer


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