On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 17:23, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote:

> On May 26, 7:32 am, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]>
> wrote:

>> As for floating point numbers, I constantly use Vim as a floating-point
>> calculator; I wouldn't say it's a useless feature. Not a /necessary/ one
>> -- I could do without the trig and exp/log functions

> When floating point was included, I thought it to be fairly useless

> All that changed when I had to compute a trig function on a large
> number of items scattered through a text file.

> I did in seconds what it may have taken a good part of
> an hour doing by hand, finding each input and plugging it into
> Windows' Calculator application, or even into a spreadsheet.

Perhaps you would like to give dc(1) a try next time?

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