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On Friday, 13 October 2017 10:37:30 BST Mick wrote: |
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> On Friday, 13 October 2017 04:20:19 BST tuxic@××××××.de wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > |
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> > in a video I saw someone using a neat little commandline tool (no gui) |
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> > called 'qcalc', with which he performs some interesting calculations. |
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> > I searched the web for it and found this link |
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> > https://state-machine.com/qtools/qcalc.html#qcalc_linux |
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> > but it is another type of calculator and it has a gui. |
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> > Does someone knows of this commandline tool and what |
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> > package/archive/... it is contained in? |
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> > Thanks a lot for any help in advance! |
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> > Cheers |
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> > Meino |
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> |
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> Have a look at GNU bc. |
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> $ bc |
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> bc 1.06.95 |
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> Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation, |
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> Inc. |
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> This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. |
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> For details type `warranty'. |
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> 3+5 |
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> 8 |
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> sqrt(16) |
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> 4 |
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> quit |
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> $ |
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> man bc shows the capabilities of this calculator which significantly exceed |
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> mine and reminds me why I should have paid more attention at school. :-p |
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Oops! I realised I did not answer your question! |
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From what I know Qalc (no 'c' after 'q') used to be the CLI version of the |
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application called Qalculate, but I have not used it: |
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https://qalculate.github.io/ |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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