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From: tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain)
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Subject: Re: Seeking SideKick-/spreadsheet-type functionality for AT&T 3B2
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Date: 30 Oct 90 14:59:42 GMT
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In article <4254@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
>bc is much less user-friendly than, say, an HP-16C...or the rpn program

Yea "(14-2)*3+5" is really hard compared to "14<ENTER>2-3*5+".    1/2  :-)

I admit, however, that trig and other complex functions don't work
as easily with bc.  (And "scale=" is important to learn.)

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