-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I guess I should have stated that I just need it to be simple... If I needed something that could do trig and all that I would pull out my TI-84 Plus. I just need it for pure convince, and I bc would do.
Thanks for the help and the suggestions. Adam Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Friday 29 June 2007 12:58, G T Smith wrote: >> Adam Jimerson wrote: >>> Does anyone know if there is a program for a command line >>> calculator, and if so what it is called? >> bash :-) >> >> try >> >> echo $((5+2)) >> echo $((7*6)) > > Or, try these: > > % echo $(( 5.5 + 2.2 )) > bash: 5.5 + 2.2: syntax error in expression (error token is ".5 + 2.2 ") > > % echo $(( 010 * 020 )) > 128 > > % echo $(( 080 + 020 )) > bash: 080: value too great for base (error token is "080") > > % echo $(( 0xa * 0xa )) > 100 > > >> at CLI >> >> of course if you want trig and logs you need do a little work... > > > It only does integers and has an inflexible way of treating numeric > radixes (e.g., leading zero forces octal), as shown above. > > Dc (RPN) or bc (infix) are the way to go for non-trivial scripted > calculation. They do floating point, arbitrary precision and have > formatted printing. (BASH has this, too, perhaps even better, being > modelled after the C library printf() function.) > > > Randall Schulz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGhbuwzZAvb+u/9+oRAmoRAKCz53wRJwQ2DpfeCke13nApHLeI7ACg5HdF RIVndIcY74r1PZCAVBay4cI= =HbwW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
