Re: Unit Conversion.

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2009-07-20 15:44, green wrote:
> Johannes Wiedersich wrote at 2009-07-20 11:12 -0600:
> > josé Santos wrote:
> > > Hi. I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny,
> > > google isn't helping much. Any suggestions? Thank you.
> > For one off calculations I find qalculate quite useful. Apart from
> > converting units, it is a fully fledged GUI calculator that is useful
> > for many scientific calculations and has stored values for many physical
> > and other units and constants. It can also convert things like US$ to
> > Euro or more exotic currencies, where the exchange rates are updated via
> > the internet.
>
> I like qalculate because it
> - can be used it on the command line

Put this in your .bashrc :

calc() { perl -e "print ''.($*).\"\\n\""; }

$ calc 4 \* 7
28


> - will solve equations like '2x=4' or whatever


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