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From: rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Robert Bernecky)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: desk-calculator for ANSII-terminal (vt100)
Keywords: vt100 ANSII desk-calculator
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.221828.13538@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM>
Date: 28 Jun 91 22:18:28 GMT
References: <11654@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de>
Reply-To: rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Robert Bernecky)
Organization: Snake Island Research Inc, Toronto
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In article <11654@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de> km11hs@sbuvax.rz.uni-sb.de (Dieter Becker) writes:
>I am looking for a PD desk-calculator with some scientific functions
>like log, sin, cos and a friendly "face". Programs, I know, are using
>only base-line-entry of data. I'm looking for a program which can be 
>used by everyone, not only by specialist. In our system (SINIX) there 
>is a program like this (using curses) but it is rather stupid.

J is a modern dialect of APL, which may meet your needs. J uses
ASCII (unlike old APL dialects), and is available as shareware from
a number of sites, including watserv1.

J handles arrays naturally, and contains a full set of elementary functions,
including all those you mention.

Here's a few examples:

 1 2 3 + 4 5 6
5 7 9

  2^ 1 2 5
1 4 32

  i. 5
0 1 2 3 4
  i. 3
0 1 2

  +/ 1 2 9
12
  +/ i. 5
10
(sum of first 5 integers)

2 3$ i.6
0 1 2
3 4 5

3 * 2 3$ i.6
0  3  6
9 12 15

100 200+"1 (2 3 $ i. 6)
100 101 102
203 204 205
(add rank one objects together : row by row)

and so on. 

Bob

Robert Bernecky      rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.com  bernecky@itrchq.itrc.on.ca 
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