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09-26-2004, 10:54 AM
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Registered: Apr 2004
Distribution: SuSE 9.0
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Ideal Linux Calculator
Hello,
It has taken me years to find the ideal Windows calculator - Equalizer. Now that I'm fully Linuxed, however, I find myself once again in the search for a calculator. Which scientific calculator do you think is the best available for Linux?
( Abacus won't do.)
- TLG |
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09-26-2004, 11:04 AM
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Registered: Aug 2004
Location: New York
Distribution: --------- Gentoo-2004.2 [2.6.8] Redhat-9 [2.6.6]
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its called pg calculator..
check it out and see if it meets ur requirements..
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=11896 |
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09-26-2004, 12:39 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Somerset, England
Distribution: Slackware 10.2, Slackware 10.0, Ubuntu 9.10
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By far the most useful calculator is BC, the arbirary precision calculator. It's command line but very very powerful.
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09-26-2004, 06:06 PM
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Registered: Jul 2002
Location: East Centra Illinois, USA
Distribution: Debian stable
Posts: 5,908
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fung-calc.
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09-28-2004, 08:48 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2004
Distribution: SuSE 9.0
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I have been unsuccessful in installing pgcalc, but the screenshots I've seen do not bode well. BC is probably extremely powerful - all GNU applications are - but I was hoping for something a little more graphical. Fung-calc is outright amazing - and has definitely earned a place on my computer - but not entirely what I was looking for. What I need, in fact, is simply any old scientific calculator that allows one to type queries rather than go through the ordeal of having to push button after button. Any suggestions?
-- TLG
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09-28-2004, 08:54 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Somerset, England
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Quote:
Originally posted by The Last Grok
I have been unsuccessful in installing pgcalc, but the screenshots I've seen do not bode well. BC is probably extremely powerful - all GNU applications are - but I was hoping for something a little more graphical. Fung-calc is outright amazing - and has definitely earned a place on my computer - but not entirely what I was looking for. What I need, in fact, is simply any old scientific calculator that allows one to type queries rather than go through the ordeal of having to push button after button. Any suggestions?
-- TLG
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With respect I think you're being too fussy. If you're after mathematical calculations using formulae then surely the graphics aspect is not important? I can think of little that is more convenient than firing up a shell, running bc and just typing in the query.
But if you want graphics then good luck! |
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09-28-2004, 09:51 AM
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Registered: Apr 2004
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Quote:
Originally posted by Komakino
With respect I think you're being too fussy.
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Maybe I am... But this is a calculator I'm after! I can do without this "Internet" stuff (never really liked it anyway), and I've never really gotten the hang of "word processing" (I like my words raw) - and don't even get me started on "ut2004" - but I'm helpless without something to crunch my numbers for me. (In other words, my computer is a waste of a perfectly good Pentium IV.)
- TLG |
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10-14-2004, 01:48 AM
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Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Distribution: Slackware, Debian, Gentoo, openSuSE
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Old thread, but I was just searching for a good graphing calc, and the fung-calc screenshots look great. I'm compiling it now...see how it works. Anyone else know of a good calc program? I can get Mathematica for the super cheap student price, so I might have to do that when I have some money. Untill then...
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