On Friday, 13 October 2017 10:37:30 BST Mick wrote:
> On Friday, 13 October 2017 04:20:19 BST tu...@posteo.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > in a video I saw someone using a neat little commandline tool (no gui)
> > called 'qcalc', with which he performs some interesting calculations.
> > 
> > I searched the web for it and found this link
> > https://state-machine.com/qtools/qcalc.html#qcalc_linux
> > but it is another type of calculator and it has a gui.
> > 
> > Does someone knows of this commandline tool and what
> > package/archive/... it is contained in?
> > 
> > Thanks a lot for any help in advance!
> > Cheers
> > Meino
> 
> Have a look at GNU bc.
> 
> $ bc
> bc 1.06.95
> Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation,
> Inc.
> This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> For details type `warranty'.
> 3+5
> 8
> sqrt(16)
> 4
> quit
> $
> 
> man bc shows the capabilities of this calculator which significantly exceed
> mine and reminds me why I should have paid more attention at school.  :-p

Oops!  I realised I did not answer your question!

>From what I know Qalc (no 'c' after 'q') used to be the CLI version of the 
application called Qalculate, but I have not used it:

https://qalculate.github.io/

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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