What's bad with printf() using gcc? And you can choose any precision or even formatiing.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il>wrote: > For years, I've been wondering: How do other Unix or Linux users do simple > calculations? > > Do you take out an actual physical calculator (which is of course > ridiculous)? > Do you use software that looks like a physical calculator (xcalc, kcalc, > etc.)? > > Or do you use bc? Does anyone actually use bc, which returns "0" as a > result > for the calculation "2/3"? :-) Of course, you can use "scale=10" (or the -l > option to bc) to fix that, but how many first-time users would know that? > What posessed the person who decided to make scale=0 the default? :-) > > What I have been using myself, is my own version of Kernighan & Pike's > "Hoc" > (see http://nadav.harel.org.il/homepage/hoc/). But since this didn't catch > on, > as didn't the original Hoc (which was available in Research Unix and Plan > 9, > but not anywhere else), unfortunately I'm one of the few who do. All of the > rest are missing on the convenience of Hoc ;-) > > So I was wondering - how come there isn't more pressure on the Linux > distributions to include a decent and convenient calculator language? > Or do people consider what is available decent enough already? > > Nadav. > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Thursday, May 20 2010, 7 Sivan > 5770 > n...@math.technion.ac.il > |----------------------------------------- > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Despite the cost of living, have you > http://nadav.harel.org.il |noticed how it remains so popular? > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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