On Tue 01 Oct 2019 at 21:18:13 (-0700), Dan Hitt wrote: > On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 8:58 PM David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> > wrote: > > On 10/1/19 8:32 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > > > I'm half-way looking for some shell wrappers for common trig functions > > > like > > > sin, cos, exp, log, and others. > > > > > > I'm aware of bc, but it seems cumbersome. > > > > > > I would like to just type 'sin 1' and get the sine (of 1 radian), > > > > Perl one-liners are an option: > > > > 2019-10-01 19:25:59 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~ > > $ perl -e 'print sin 1' > > 0.841470984807897 > > > > > > > or type 'log 2' > > > > 2019-10-01 20:48:52 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~ > > $ perl -e 'print log 2' > > 0.693147180559945 > > > > > > > and get the natural or maybe common log of 2. (Probably any such > > > program should do something intelligent when faced with multiple or zero > > > arguments, such as computing the sine or log of each, so that they could > > > be > > > chained together. And maybe such a program would pay attention to > > > environment variables or optional command line arguments to tune its > > > behavior.) > > > > > > These kinds of programs would be super-easy to write in just about any > > > language (i guess perhaps even just as bash functions which shell out to > > > bc > > > for at least some of the simpler functions) but before i actually do > > > something like that, i wonder if somebody has already done it, whether > > > there exist any standards or good ideas, etc. (Because if somebody has a > > > good, thoughtful exp program, for example, then it could be cookie-cutter > > > copied to a bunch of other functions.) > > > > > > There is a precedent of sorts in Paul Rubin's factor program, which is > > > just > > > oh-so-handy when you're wondering how an integer factors, but don't want > > > to > > > start up some heavy-weight system just to find out. > > > > 2019-10-01 20:49:17 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~ > > $ apt-cache search libmath-prime-util-perl > > libmath-prime-util-perl - utilities related to prime numbers, including > > fast sieves and factoring > Thanks so much for your reply, including the apt-cache searching part. > > It does look like a way to quickly get values for sine (or any other > function in perl). > > However, i would like to dispense entirely with the 'perl -e' and 'print' > part. I really would like stand-alone programs. This would absolutely > minimize any typing, and if the programs had a set of good conventions, > then they would provide a model for writing others if the functions i want > are not already available in perl (or other interpreter).
You mean like: $ python3 Python 3.7.3 (default, Apr 3 2019, 05:39:12) [GCC 8.3.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from math import * >>> sin(1) 0.8414709848078965 >>> log(2) 0.6931471805599453 >>> log10(2) 0.3010299956639812 >>> exp(2) 7.38905609893065 >>> sqrt(10) 3.1622776601683795 >>> factorial(9) 362880 >>> import math >>> dir(math) ['__doc__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__spec__', 'acos', 'acosh', 'asin', 'asinh', 'atan', 'atan2', 'atanh', 'ceil', 'copysign', 'cos', 'cosh', 'degrees', 'e', 'erf', 'erfc', 'exp', 'expm1', 'fabs', 'factorial', 'floor', 'fmod', 'frexp', 'fsum', 'gamma', 'gcd', 'hypot', 'inf', 'isclose', 'isfinite', 'isinf', 'isnan', 'ldexp', 'lgamma', 'log', 'log10', 'log1p', 'log2', 'modf', 'nan', 'pi', 'pow', 'radians', 'remainder', 'sin', 'sinh', 'sqrt', 'tan', 'tanh', 'tau', 'trunc'] >>> By importing math with "from math import *", the functions are made available without having to be qualified: "factorial()" rather than "math.factorial()". I imported math a second time just to give you the contents of that particular module with dir(). Cheers, David.