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? :-) > > bc on the konsole and kcalc when in need for more 'complex' math ... works for me! :) -- Shimi
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