Re: Simple calculator
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 08:36:18PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Aug, 1998, Dr. Michael Meskes wrote:
> > Is there a simple calculator available? I'd like to have a small binary I
> > can use from the command line. On some archive I found a little program
> > called calc (as expected :-)) that is about 15k and does quite a lot. Do we
> > have something similar, or shall I package it?
>
> $ echo $((1+1))
> 2
@heorot [~] $ echo $((1.1+1.1))
bash: 1.1+1.1: syntax error in expression (error token is ".1+1.1")
15k is beans if it does what one would expect of a 'real'
calculator:-> That goes for bc as well.. :
20.00 / 13.00
1
Sure, you can set it to behave 'normally', but just for whipping out a
few numbers...
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