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HDMI_Cable
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Show HN: Kalk, A calculator with math syntax, comp...
This is really nice and all, but what I (and probably many others) would love is an alternative to `bc`. It's so useful but also so limited.
anyfoo
on May 30, 2021
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Can you elaborate? I think I know what you mean, but when I clicked the link it already seemed to be a "more advanced bc" to me. What are you missing, big numbers (that's what came to my mind)?
tux1968
on May 31, 2021
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If you're looking for something more advanced while still at the command prompt, check out "calc":
http://isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/
On Fedora:
sudo dnf install calc ; alias bc=calc
kzrdude
on May 30, 2021
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what features from bc do you need? Have you seen calc (the calc package in debian/ubuntu)?
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