Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!bcm!lib!thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu From: jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Seeking SideKick-/spreadsheet-type functionality for AT&T 3B2 Message-ID: <4260@lib.tmc.edu> Date: 30 Oct 90 18:44:34 GMT References: <4254@lib.tmc.edu> <4079@awdprime.UUCP> Sender: usenet@lib.tmc.edu Distribution: na Organization: University of Texas Medical School at Houston Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu In article <4079@awdprime.UUCP> tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain) writes: >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 "142-3*5+". 1/2 :-) OK...but what's the bc equivalent to 64564? (For those of you who aren't lucky enough to own a 16C, and haven't gotten rpn running, that sets a word size of 64 bits, and then shows the hex value of the two's complement of 564.) >I admit, however, that trig and other complex functions don't work >as easily with bc. (And "scale=" is important to learn.) Without scale=, it's next to impossible to get a useful answer from bc. Calculator designers work very hard at making their products usable with little to no effort. Why reinvent wheels? -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity. "With design like this, who needs bugs?" - Boyd Roberts