Intel 4004 is announced, November 15, 1971

Re:Intel 4004 is announced, November 15, 1971 by ggreer on Monday November 16, 2015 @01:27AM (#10572952)

I used to use a TI-83+, but now I've gotten into the habit of opening a Python or Node.js REPL for math. That way, I can copy-paste values to and from emails or chat. It also helps that I already know the syntax and math libs.

I tried bc[1] as well, but it has some really annoying defaults. For example: While it's capable of arbitrary precision, it calculates out to zero decimal places unless you tell it otherwise.

1. https://www.gnu.org/software/bc/

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Re:Intel 4004 is announced, November 15, 1971 by gaius on Monday November 16, 2015 @03:06AM (#10573193)

I've tried that but for me a REPL for calculating occupies an annoying middle ground: not as efficient as a calculator for quick calculations and not as powerful as say MathCAD for exploratory work. IPython's a step in the right direction.

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Re:Intel 4004 is announced, November 15, 1971 by eru on Monday November 16, 2015 @06:51AM (#10573908)

I always start it as "bc -l". On some computers I have alias bc to that option.

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Re:Intel 4004 is announced, November 15, 1971 by justinhj on Monday November 16, 2015 @10:04AM (#10574780)

Emacs calc is convenient and very full featured to say the least

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