[ale] OT - Portable Drive

[JK]

Alex LeDonne wrote:
> On Dec 11, 2007 1:56 PM, Mike Harrison <meuon at geeklabs.com> wrote:
> 
>>--And to be on Linux: Am I one of the few users of 'bc' left?
>>
>>What a powerful tool, especially when doing weird math.
>>
>>apt-get install bc
>>bc
>>128^128
>>
>>Is a good example of why it's useful. Lots of display room. :)
> 
> 
> 
> And to make a neat little bow, there's also dc which brings RPN/stack
> based calculations to a similar environment...
> 
> aledonne at rumba:~> dc
> 128
> 128
> ^
> p
> 528294531135665246352339784916516606518847326036121522127960709026673\
> 902556724859474417255887657187894674394993257128678882347559502685537\
> 250538978462939576908386683999005084168731517676426441053024232908211\
> 188404148028292751561738838396898767036476489538580897737998336
> 
> 
> I'm loving this thread!
> 
> My father is an engineer; I got a slide rule (new) when I was in grade
> school, but I already had calculators. It's packed in a box
> somewhere... gotta find that thing. I stumbled into an amazing
> collection of relatively modern HP calcs (all LCD, no LED), and I have
> a number of cool Sharp and Casio calcs as well. No TIs... mostly
> through coincidence, I think.

I learned to program on a TI-58 back in 1978 or so, and was
hooked from then on :-)

-- JK

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