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Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by tptacek on Thursday February 27, 2014 @06:47PM (#7316194)
I've never used calc. I use rpn, an incredibly simple rpn calculator someone I know wrote in like 1998. Why would I use emacs calc? (Curious).
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Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by wglb on Thursday February 27, 2014 @07:40PM (#7316493)
Well, I didn't know about rpn. Calc the stack based thing, but it might have more features.
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Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by tptacek on Thursday February 27, 2014 @09:24PM (#7316880)
Oh, I wasn't arguing, I was just waiting to hear about calc's amazing powers.
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Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by wglb on Thursday February 27, 2014 @11:15PM (#7317213)
Here are some odd highlights: matrix http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/calc/Matr...

Lists http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/calc/List...

Algebra: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/calc/Basi...

Algebra rewrites: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/calc/Rewr...

Programming calc: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/calc/Prog...

And (gasp) Data Types: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/calc/Type...

(mind you, i mostly use the HP-calculator level stuff. But the rest is certainly awesome)

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Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by tptacek on Thursday February 27, 2014 @11:49PM (#7317297)
Hah! Of course an Emacs calculator would contain a rudimentary CAS. How couldn't it?
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