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Quote:> What is the best calculator for Linux?

Um... a recursive-descent parser expression evaluator?  Perl -e?

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Alas, I must confess to a shameful vice...

$ wine /mnt/win/c/windows/calc.exe

I know, I know... :-(

Whoa!  Xcalc is better than that!

I use a curses-based thing from ancient times called "dcalc".  It is an
HP-style calculator with a visible stack and pretty sensible keyboard
bindings.  Don't have a URL handy.

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Try this: kcalc &
Trig mode is default. Want statistics? Click the configure button.

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[Snip - best calculator]

I use dc in text mode. Great for pipeing expressions into.

Quote:> Xcalc is crap. It looks and acts a mess. Windows
> calculator is actually half-decent if you put it
> in scientific mode.

And if you don't, it will give the wrong result (in some versions).
Example:

25*25+1*25

In scientific mode this gives 650 (correct).
In standard mode it gives 15650 (extremly wrong!)

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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Osama Bin Laden

 wrote
on Wed, 02 Oct 2002 00:44:52 +0100

Quote:> What is the best calculator for Linux?

What precisely did you need?

Basic 4-function?

Trig?

Statistics?

Pretty graphs? :-)

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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Peter Jensen

 wrote
on Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:27:27 +0200

Standard mode?

My version of xcalc has -stipple and -rpn.  -rpn emulates an HP-10C
(and uses a wide display); -stipple only fiddles with the background
colors.

In RPN mode, one must enter

25 ENTER 25 * ENTER 1 ENTER 25 * +

to get the correct result, if I remember my RPN correctly.
(I might have an extraneous ENTER in there.)

Without RPN my version does the right thing.  Possibly it was patched.

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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Osama Bin Laden

 wrote
on Thu, 03 Oct 2002 10:48:16 +0100

That might take some doing.  I'm not familiar enough with the
TI series of graphing calculators to stipulate which variant
one should emulate.  (Perhaps a representative of TI can
clarify this? :-) )

Or one can just punt and suggest Gnumeric with the guppi option
(which isn't really an option but Debian at one point didn't have
the dependencies quite right; hopefuly they've fixed it by now).
Gnumeric of course is far more than a calculator but does have
all of the above capabilities.

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Quote:> 25 ENTER 25 * ENTER 1 ENTER 25 * +

                  ^
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I'm guessing this-' one. :)

Quote:> (I might have an extraneous ENTER in there.)

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Quote:>>> Xcalc is crap. It looks and acts a mess. Windows
>>> calculator is actually half-decent if you put it
>>> in scientific mode.

>> And if you don't, it will give the wrong result (in some versions).
>> Example:

>> 25*25+1*25

>> In scientific mode this gives 650 (correct).
>> In standard mode it gives 15650 (extremly wrong!)

> Standard mode?

The option right above scientific mode ...

Quote:> My version of xcalc [Snip]

Whoa there ... Who was talking about xcalc? Read my post again (or at
least the lines included above). OBL is talking about xcalc and then
says that Windows calculator is good if put in scientific mode. I then
replied that if one does not put it in scientific mode, then the order
of operations is screwed ...
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Perl -d provides a nicer interface.

[snips]

Odd; here it looks and acts like a calculator program.

Really?  I haven't found that to be the case.  It adds, subtracts,
divides, multiplies, handles logs - both flavours - powers, roots and a
handful of other things.  Just your typical desktop calculator
application.  It even appears to get the right answers fairly
consistently, with a pretty decent precision.  No more or less "horrible"
than any other comparable app.  Oh, there are some which add a lot of
extra features, which is nice to have, but for the class of application
that it is, it seems about on a par with the rest.

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Peter Jensen

 wrote
on Thu, 3 Oct 2002 23:55:59 +0200

I stand corrected --- and the Win2k calc does*up as indicated.
Not sure if this is worse than the 3.11 - 3.10 = 0.00 bug, or what. :-)

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