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7 of the Best Free Linux Calculators

Posted by timothy on from the open-in-tabs dept.

An anonymous reader writes "One of the basic utilities supplied with any operating system is a desktop calculator. These are often simple utilities that are perfectly adequate for basic use. They typically include trigonometric functions, logarithms, factorials, parentheses and a memory function. However, the calculators featured in this article are significantly more sophisticated with the ability to process difficult mathematical functions, to plot graphs in 2D and 3D, and much more. Occasionally, the calculator tool provided with an operating system did not engender any confidence. The classic example being the calculator shipped with Windows 3.1 which could not even reliably subtract two numbers. Rest assured, the calculators listed below are of precision quality."

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  1. i'll calculate something for you linfags by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    your chance of getting aids for taking a dick in the ass is 100%

  2. Re:For most people ... by tomhudson · · Score: 0, Troll

    anything more complicated than adding a few numbers, it's easier to open a spreadsheet than to learn how any particular calculator functions.

    Not if you use the Google Apps spreadsheet program. It doesn't round by default and gives weird results to some of the simplest math. Play around with it a bit and you'll see.

    No can do. I've black-holed anything and everything from google because of their CEO's very public, and very stupid, stand against privacy. Besides, I wouldn't trust my private data to any advertising company. Who would be stupid enough to do that? (I know, there are businesses doing exactly that - which just goes to show how continued exposure to PowerPoint makes you stupid)..

  3. Re:Where's DC/BC? by drinkypoo · · Score: -1, Troll

    From your comment you apparently think I am a fucktard. But I know how to use a manpage. Defaults make bc impenetrable to the masses of asses; few of them are willing to confront a command line, but those who do are likely to be driven away.

    bc is cool, it's almost the only calc I use on Unix (soemtimes I use whatever comes up when I press the calculator button) but the fact that it began with scale=0 is fucking retarded. It makes little to no sense from any standpoint that I've ever considered. Why would I want very wrong answers by default?

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  4. LOL! by Joce640k · · Score: 0, Troll

    I checked some of them out...

    Most were considerably *worse* than Windows' built-in calculator - which I didn't think was possible.

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