On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:09:15AM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 03:45:48PM -0800, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > > --- Em qui, 29/11/12, Ken Moffat escreveu: > > > > Ken, I have used gcalctool. Many times wanted to ask you: > > > > Have you ever tried "Qalculate!"? > > > > http://qalculate.sourceforge.net/ > > > > It can be used as very basic calculator with its own keypad, or with a > > click, you have a history that you can copy any part of. I stop my use > > normally here. > > > > But it can be used in more complex ways, as scientific calculator, > > converting units, with different basis (binary, decimal, hexa, ..., > > currencies, variables, functions, RPN, many other possibilities. > > > Hadn't heard of it. I'll need to look at what it requires. > Cheers. > I've now built it, and tried it for a couple of minutes - far too complex for me! It's for mathematicians (I don't even know what many of the things in the menus are). For my use (mostly, keeping track of my finances) using the history to store a partial calculation is possible, but feels awkward.
Build order / required deps: libxml2 glib2 gtk+-2 libglade rarian (i.e. scrollkeeper) cln-1.3.2 libqalculate-0.9.7 qalculate-gtk-0.9.7 There are other deps if you wish to retrieve exchange rates (!) or for graphical plotting. cln does install a "useful" program: /usr/bin/pi will output pi to an arbitrary number of digits (default is 100) - ken@jtm1 ~ $/usr/bin/pi 70 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816 but it truncates after the last digit printed - ken@jtm1 ~ $/usr/bin/pi 5 3.1415 which was not what I expected : at school I was taught that 3.1416 was adequate for anything we were likely to do. There are lots of warnings from cln about using obsolete/deprecated headers, but fedora build it so I guess they will have fixes when g++ or whatever changes. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
