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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a certain program...
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:47:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1884454.COQQCaAW86@dell_xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2750902.QcfCMtzdYk@dell_xps>

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On Friday, 13 October 2017 10:37:30 BST Mick wrote:
> On Friday, 13 October 2017 04:20:19 BST tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > in a video I saw someone using a neat little commandline tool (no gui)
> > called 'qcalc', with which he performs some interesting calculations.
> > 
> > I searched the web for it and found this link
> > https://state-machine.com/qtools/qcalc.html#qcalc_linux
> > but it is another type of calculator and it has a gui.
> > 
> > Does someone knows of this commandline tool and what
> > package/archive/... it is contained in?
> > 
> > Thanks a lot for any help in advance!
> > Cheers
> > Meino
> 
> Have a look at GNU bc.
> 
> $ bc
> bc 1.06.95
> Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation,
> Inc.
> This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> For details type `warranty'.
> 3+5
> 8
> sqrt(16)
> 4
> quit
> $
> 
> man bc shows the capabilities of this calculator which significantly exceed
> mine and reminds me why I should have paid more attention at school.  :-p

Oops!  I realised I did not answer your question!

From what I know Qalc (no 'c' after 'q') used to be the CLI version of the 
application called Qalculate, but I have not used it:

https://qalculate.github.io/

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-13  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-13  3:20 [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a certain program tuxic
2017-10-13  9:23 ` David Haller
2017-10-13  9:37 ` Mick
2017-10-13  9:47   ` Mick [this message]
2017-10-14  1:41     ` tuxic
2017-10-14  3:19       ` R0b0t1
     [not found]       ` <MFKP1w0161kktTk01FKQRR>
2017-10-14  4:02         ` John Campbell
2017-10-14  5:04           ` tuxic
2017-10-14  6:28             ` Dale
2017-10-14  6:53               ` tuxic
2017-10-14  7:51                 ` Dale
2017-10-14 22:05                   ` R0b0t1

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