Second the use of python, either 2/3. for decimal response, or use a variable an assign the result to it with the equal sign, then you can use it for more stuff later.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 7:41 AM, shlomo bauer <shlomoba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Sammy is wondering (for years) how unix/linux users do simple calculations. > > Many people write their own calculator language - in the tradition of > hoc. Anyone who actually > enters in the code for hoc will discover something quite interesting. > > Other people use languages like Nickle (http://nickle.org/); I > typically use haskell and in the past, I used ocaml and further in the > past, I used sml - still my favorite. > > Another approach is to use a spreadsheet. You can compute recursive > functions using !. > > My favorite, for "simple" cacluations, is to compute an approximate > answer and to do so, I don't generally need anything except a sense of > the scale of the numbers. > > Shlomo > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- Check out my web site - www.words2u.net
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