Re:Frink
by kybernetikos on Saturday November 30, 2019 @07:43AM
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I use ncalc+ on my phone which is a pleasant to use simple opensource calculator with symbolic capability when you need it.
Re:Frink
by rsmckinney on Saturday November 30, 2019 @07:02AM
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On desktop, for calculation and unit-conversion, I've completely replaced it with Qalculate, which doesn't have a programming language but does have a symbolic solver built-in, which is surprisingly useful for general calculations: you don't have to rearrange your calculation so the unknown is by itself, you can just write the equation from your textbook and replace the thing you want to know with 'x'.
Frink's "Sample Calculations" segment is an amusing read, in much the same ticklish way as xkcd's "What-if" series.