On 20 May 2010 21:55, Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il> 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 out the calculator". It's not installed on our servers by default so I have to "fall back" to my desktop if I'm on one of them but that's it. Sometimes, if the screen real-estate doesn't make it convenient to switch to gterm+bc, I use the Gnome calculator, which is basic but enough for my needs. For a little more elaborate calculations with values pasted aside, "what if" expressions with different inputs etc I use oocalc or Google Docs (yes, I'm a "Google Bitch"). For calculating sums/averages/etc on numbers extracted from streamed input (or formatted files) I use things like "awk -e '{s+=$N}END{print s}'" with extra conditions in the loop and extra expression in the END expression as needed. --Amos _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il