Hello,
   This may seems strange but I always use python in interactive mode. Just
type python3 or python without any file path. :D

Le lun. 13 juil. 2020 à 12:48, The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> a écrit :

> On 2020-07-13 at 06:01, Reco wrote:
>
> >       Hi.
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 03:31:10PM +0800, kaye n wrote:
> >> Hello Friends,
> >> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any calculator app in my
> Debian os.
> >
> > There are plenty, for all tastes. Try "apt search calculator".
> >
> >> What do you guys use? I'm having trouble with Galculator.
> >
> > bc, simple as that. Everything else requires more keystokes or a mouse.
>
> What about calc (currently in the package of that name, formerly in the
> package apcalc)? That being what I've used for over a decade now.
>
> Reading through the bc man page, it looks to me as if using calc it
> should take comparable numbers of keystrokes, aside from typing the name
> of the program itself.
>
> In some contexts it could even need fewer; for example, calc (as shipped
> in Debian) provides the built-in function 'pi()', which takes a
> precision - expressed as a value between zero and one - and returns pi
> to that level of precision. The list of built-in functions in the bc man
> page is very short, and doesn't include any such thing, so unless
> something has added one without the man page getting updated anything
> that needs to use pi is going to take more typing than with calc.
>
> calc also has the option to present non-integer output in the form of a
> ratio of two integers, which means you don't have to figure out manually
> what fraction a given result is; at a skim, I don't see indication that
> bc has comparable functionality.
>
> I've heard recommendation of bc before, but to date I've yet to
> encounter anything that makes it seem preferable over calc, and I'm
> curious what I'm missing.
>
> --
>    The Wanderer
>
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
> progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw
>
>

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