Hello,

On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
> wcalc  is a command-line calculator designed to accept all valid mathematical
> expressions. It supports all standard mathematical  operations,  parenthesis,
> brackets, trigonometric functions, hyperbolic trig functions, logs, and bool‐
> ean operators.

Inspired by this e-mail I installed wcalc. It _is_ a truly useful
tool for those looking for a replacement for a desktop calculator.

> It will give bc(1) or any other tool a run for the money.

However, this is false! The reason is that "bc" is a _programmable_
calculator. You can define functions in "bc". As far as I could tell,
"wcalc" is missing this.

Regards,

Kapil.
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