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This is interesting, but I doubt anything will ever come up in my lifetime that is even close to replacing Emacs Calc for me. I still consider it to be the best
by deng 2y ago
This is interesting, but I doubt anything will ever come up in my lifetime that is even close to replacing Emacs Calc for me. I still consider it to be the best scientific calculator ever written. It's crazy that many Emacs users aren't even aware that it exists. It comes with an almost ridiculously extensive manual, complete with exercises and everything:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/calc.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/calc.htm...
It's probably overkill for most people, and I'm sad that I don't get to use it as much as when I was a student, but it's still a beautiful rabbit hole to fall into. And it works in a terminal just fine. :-)
- innocentoldguy 2y agoThanks, Deng! I'm one of those Emacs users who has been using Emacs for years, and I didn't know Emacs Calc existed. Reading the manual now...
- mark_h 2y agoAllow me to recommend Andrew Hyatt's tutorials: https://github.com/ahyatt/emacs-calc-tutorials https://github.com/ahyatt/emacs-calc-tutorials
- 20after4 2y agoSee also: https://numara.io https://numara.io and math.js