On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:25:27PM +0100, François Cerbelle wrote: > > Le Ven 14 novembre 2008 12:05, lee a écrit : > [...] > > With dc or bc, you need to figure out how to use them. An hour later or > > so you might be able to calculate 2+5. With qalculate (or other GUI > > calculators), you type 2+5 and get the result, just like you do with a > > calculator. dc only says "stack empty", whatever that's supposed to > > mean. > You should try "bc". I'm sure that you can type in everything you can type > in your GUI based calculator.
Right. bc - An arbitrary precision calculator language $ bc bc 1.06.94 Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details type `warranty'. 1/2 0 Oh, you mean I had to set this strange thing called 'scale'? Why can't I get it to default to something more reasonable? There's at least not a method documented in the man page. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
