On 11/14/08 06:46, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:25:27PM +0100, François Cerbelle wrote:
[snip]
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.
You're just being closed-minded.
$ alias bcl
alias bcl='bc -l'
$ bcl
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
.50000000000000000000
I wish there were a ~/.bcrc to auto-set the scale, but the world
won't come to an end if you see a lot of zeros.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
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