On 14/07/2020 03:39, Wolf Halton wrote:
I know you are looking for a GUI calculator app, however I would like to entice
you with a CLI app that is easy to use, but will make your coworkers think you
are secretly a computer expert.
I tend to use python3 in the terminal window. I open a terminal, type python or
python3 in the command line. It lets me do relatively complex calculations, and
makes easy copy/paste of the entire calculation where required
I use powershell in Windows the same way. Can just use the up-arrow to repeat
similar calculations.
Python is a programming language and it’s pretty simple to set up all kinds of
repetitive math quite easily, but you probably won’t need all the capability
(at least at first).
4/5 (enter) gets you 0 which is good for estimating
but 4.0/5 gets you 0.8 like you probably expect
"Floor division" is the default in Python 2 (without "from __future__
import division"), but in Python 3, "true division" is the default and
there is a new "floor division" operator.
Python 2:
4 / 5 == 0
4.0 / 5 == 0.8
Python 3:
4 / 5 == 0.8
4 // 5 == 0
Project Jupyter <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Jupyter> provides
a rich set of tools and supports Python.
Kind regards,
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Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/>
New Zealand