Just run bc -l Also python is pretty nice for basic math. Ely
2010/5/20 Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <ladyp...@gmail.com> > > > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il>wrote: > >> For years, I've been wondering: How do other Unix or Linux users do simple >> calculations? >> >> Do you take out an actual physical calculator (which is of course >> ridiculous)? >> Do you use software that looks like a physical calculator (xcalc, kcalc, >> etc.)? >> >> Or do you use bc? Does anyone actually use bc, which returns "0" as a >> result >> for the calculation "2/3"? :-) Of course, you can use "scale=10" (or the >> -l >> option to bc) to fix that, but how many first-time users would know that? >> What posessed the person who decided to make scale=0 the default? :-) >> > > Indeed this is why I rarely use bc (and I am sorry when I do). For most > purposes (that is, if I do not need a math function, which is not loaded > when no executable is loaded), I use gdb. > > >> What I have been using myself, is my own version of Kernighan & Pike's >> "Hoc" >> (see http://nadav.harel.org.il/homepage/hoc/). But since this didn't >> catch on, >> as didn't the original Hoc (which was available in Research Unix and Plan >> 9, >> but not anywhere else), unfortunately I'm one of the few who do. All of >> the >> rest are missing on the convenience of Hoc ;-) >> >> So I was wondering - how come there isn't more pressure on the Linux >> distributions to include a decent and convenient calculator language? >> Or do people consider what is available decent enough already? >> >> Nadav. >> >> -- >> Nadav Har'El | Thursday, May 20 2010, 7 Sivan >> 5770 >> n...@math.technion.ac.il >> |----------------------------------------- >> Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Despite the cost of living, have you >> http://nadav.harel.org.il |noticed how it remains so popular? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> > > > > -- > Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. > http://ladypine.org > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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