On Mon 13 Jul 2020 at 11:39:40 (-0400), 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
That looks to me like damning with faint praise. I would say that python2 should never be used as an interactive calculator precisely because most people will be using literals most of the time, rather than variables. Cheers, David.
