Re: what calculator do you use?
On Mon 13 Jul 2020 at 11:39:40 (-0400), Wolf Halton wrote:
> I know you are looking for a GUI calculator app, however I would like to entice you with a CLI app that is easy to use, but will make your coworkers think you are secretly a computer expert.
> I tend to use python3 in the terminal window. I open a terminal, type python or python3 in the command line. It lets me do relatively complex calculations, and makes easy copy/paste of the entire calculation where required
> I use powershell in Windows the same way. Can just use the up-arrow to repeat similar calculations.
> Python is a programming language and it’s pretty simple to set up all kinds of repetitive math quite easily, but you probably won’t need all the capability (at least at first).
> 4/5 (enter) gets you 0 which is good for estimating
> but 4.0/5 gets you 0.8 like you probably expect
That looks to me like damning with faint praise.
I would say that python2 should never be used as an interactive
calculator precisely because most people will be using literals
most of the time, rather than variables.
Cheers,
David.
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