Qalculate has both a GUI and a command-line `qalc` util that does what `calc` seems to do and much more:
Show HN: Calc – A fast and intuitive command-line calculator written in Go
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Re: Show HN: Calc – A fast and intuitive command-line calculator written in Go
#12Other comments are reasonable, but fantastic work alfredxing, played around with it just now and loved how simple and intuitive it was. The only feature I really miss here is being able to use the previous answer -- is this there and I just didn't find it? Thinking of an 'ans' constant that holds the previous answer
Re: Show HN: Calc – A fast and intuitive command-line calculator written in Go
#13Other comments are reasonable, but fantastic work alfredxing, played around with it just now and loved how simple and intuitive it was. The only feature I really miss here is being able to use the previous answer -- is this there and I just didn't find it? Thinking of an 'ans' constant that holds the previous answer
Thanks, and great suggestion! Would you mind opening an issue on GitHub for it? I'll probably get around to implementing it soon.
Re: Show HN: Calc – A fast and intuitive command-line calculator written in Go
#14An alternative that isn't discussed in the Why not use ...? section is calc: http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc It is very powerful, has history, shows previous calculations, and it's pretty darn quick too. Of course, there are plenty more calculators, powerful too. I only mention calc because it bothers me that the name of this new project collides with it, without really providing anything useful beyond hav…
I've been using wcalc personally, haven't had many reasons to use something else.
Re: Show HN: Calc – A fast and intuitive command-line calculator written in Go
#15Nice and great job ! I should switch to this. I have been using python until now.
function calc { python -c "from math import *; print $1" }
Re: Show HN: Calc – A fast and intuitive command-line calculator written in Go
#16Nice! I wrote one called maths a while back. It's in Ruby but I use it pretty regularly and it does the trick:
Re: Show HN: Calc – A fast and intuitive command-line calculator written in Go
#17An alternative that isn't discussed in the Why not use ...? section is calc: http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc It is very powerful, has history, shows previous calculations, and it's pretty darn quick too. Of course, there are plenty more calculators, powerful too. I only mention calc because it bothers me that the name of this new project collides with it, without really providing anything useful beyond hav…
I've been using wcalc personally, haven't had many reasons to use something else.
wcalc is pretty much the best terminal-mode calculator anywhere. It handles significant digits very well and knows about a bunch of mathematical constants in unicode form!
-> √7×2÷π−ε0×σ+α+γ+R∞×Mτ-Φ0 = 2.26885
Re: Show HN: Calc – A fast and intuitive command-line calculator written in Go
#18Why not use.. Scientific Calculator (PowerCalc) for Android?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scaleasw.p...
Re: Show HN: Calc – A fast and intuitive command-line calculator written in Go
#19I stopped using infix calculators a while back in favor of RPN/stack calculators (dc) because I get quite tired of parens. Is the program structured such that this change would be simple? Otherwise I feel like this is simply yet another CLI calculator.
I use the M-x calc in Emacs for this reason.
I find emacs calc very fitting the RPN tradition (reminiscent of HP pocket calculators), since it provides an algebraic solver; always a pleasurable thing to witness.
Re: Show HN: Calc – A fast and intuitive command-line calculator written in Go
#20An alternative that isn't discussed in the Why not use ...? section is calc: http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc It is very powerful, has history, shows previous calculations, and it's pretty darn quick too. Of course, there are plenty more calculators, powerful too. I only mention calc because it bothers me that the name of this new project collides with it, without really providing anything useful beyond hav…
Thanks for bringing the original(?) calc to light.
without really providing anything useful beyond having been written in a fashionable language
The latter part of your comment sounds a bit discouraging. I think the developer didn't mean any harm an probably didn't know about this one.
PS: The dev had replied in the thread. All is well I guess.