Re: what calculator do you use?
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 06:47:51AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> In some contexts it could even need fewer; for example, calc (as shipped
> in Debian) provides the built-in function 'pi()', which takes a
> precision - expressed as a value between zero and one - and returns pi
> to that level of precision.
I do not understand this description. How many decimal places do you
get for a precision of, say, 0.5?
> The list of built-in functions in the bc man
> page is very short, and doesn't include any such thing, so unless
> something has added one without the man page getting updated anything
> that needs to use pi is going to take more typing than with calc.
True. But it's not a *huge* amount of typing.
unicorn:~$ bc -l
bc 1.07.1
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This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
4*a(1)
3.14159265358979323844
scale=50
4*a(1)
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937508
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