"Nadav Har'El" writes:
> 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
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 14:55 +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> Do you take out an actual physical calculator (which is of course ridiculous)?
Not necessarily.
I have a simple calculator, powered by photovoltaic cells.
For simple additions and multiplications, I use it. It may be
considered as an extra
On Thu, 20 May 2010 14:55:23 Nadav Har'El wrote:
>
> For years, I've been wondering: How do other Unix or Linux users do simple
> calculations?
I use my Emacs package compute.el (www.t-e-k.biz/els/compute.el)
for all computations. Since I'm doing everything through Emacs,
it is just 1 keystroke (A
Regarding doing approximate answers in the head, it doesn't always work as
is told in an anecdote
of the books about the late physists Richard Feynmann. It tells the story of
how he used to brag that any arithmetic problem that could be stated in in
ten seconds he could give an approximate answer u
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Geoff Shang wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2010, Nadav Har'El wrote:
>
>> For years, I've been wondering: How do other Unix or Linux users do simple
>> calculations?
>
> I use `bc -l`. I've been using it for so long now that I can't remember
> exactly what clued me into
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 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sammy is wondering (for years) how unix/linux users do simple cal
I haven't tried this myself, but:
http://code.google.com/p/toratemet/
Udi
2010/5/20 Elazar Leibovich
> Not directly related, but just in case you didn't know, you can get many
> Hebrew books via
> http://www.hebrewbooks.org/
>
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
>> What s
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://nic
On Thu, 20 May 2010, Nadav Har'El wrote:
For years, I've been wondering: How do other Unix or Linux users do simple
calculations?
I use `bc -l`. I've been using it for so long now that I can't remember
exactly what clued me into needing `-l`, though I have a vague
recollection of a friend o
Not directly related, but just in case you didn't know, you can get many
Hebrew books via
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> What software do the list members recommend for Hebrew-language holy
> books? I have looked at Sword and Bibletime, are ther
Here are methods I've used during the years:
- perldl in a shell
- ipython in a shell
- type in an arithmetic expression into google
- Use (/ 199.0 2.0)[control u][control x][control e] in emacs
- command line with "perl -e 'print 199/2,"\n"'
- created several (because I forgot w
Ori Idan wrote:
I mostly use grpn which emulates a RPN calculator, I am used to the
RPN system from old HP calculators.
I decided to give it a try (I used to own an hp 48).
First thing I said after doing the basic arithmetics was "it has no
hexadecimal mode!". I decided to try typing "hex".
Nadav Har'El 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 anyo
On Thursday 20 May 2010 14:55:23 Nadav Har'El 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,
Just run bc -l
Also python is pretty nice for basic math.
Ely
2010/5/20 Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
>
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote:
>
>> For years, I've been wondering: How do other Unix or Linux users do simple
>> calculations?
>>
>> Do you take out an actual physical calc
I mostly use grpn which emulates a RPN calculator, I am used to the RPN
system from old HP calculators.
--
Ori Idan
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Baruch Siach wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 02:55:23PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> > For years, I've been wondering: How do other Unix or Lin
On 20 May 2010 21:55, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> 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?
"bc -l" is my own fingers' version for "pull ou
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Nadav Har'El 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,
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Nadav Har'El 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,
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 02:55:23PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> For years, I've been wondering: How do other Unix or Linux users do simple
> calculations?
[snip]
> So I was wondering - how come there isn't more pressure on the Linux
> distributions to include a decent and convenient calculator la
On 20/05/2010, at 14:55, Nadav Har'El 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,
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, wh
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