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 10:37:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2750902.QcfCMtzdYk@dell_xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171013032019.ayrnug3emj4edcgh@solfire>
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
--
Regards,
Mick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-13 9:37 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 [this message]
2017-10-13 9:47 ` Mick
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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