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Anyone else just use the Python REPL as their desktop calculator?

• idanp 3y ago
  yes, with modifications - https://github.com/idanpa/calcpy https://github.com/idanpa/calcpy
  • poetaster 3y ago
    Looks really nice! I wanted to ask if 'matplotlib' was strictly needed since it's a big depends?
    • idanp 3y ago
      matplotlib is not needed, SymPy fallsback to ascii plotter and this is what I use on phone with termux.
• oneshtein 3y ago
  bc -l
• freedomben 3y ago
  Yes! (although ruby (irb) instead of python). It's amazingly useful to be able plug in expressions in a single line of text format. Though for more complex expressions, something like qalculate looks nice to me.
• nuxi 3y ago
  For one-off simple calculations I just use awk, with this handy function in my .bashrc: function calc() { awk "BEGIN{print $*}"; } # usage in bash $ calc 'sqrt(25) + 2**3 - 17.17' -4.17