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A fast and intuitive command-line calculator written in Go

Shown by alfredxing on Feb 16, 2015. Click the card to turn it over.

94points

33comments

#263of 2,565 in 2015

Top 11%of 2015 by points

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2 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score -0.29.

Idea: 0 for, 4 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against

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Simple and intuitive to use
From 1 comment
- Other 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…
  soroushjp on HN
Better than bc for small calculations
From 1 comment
- Upvoted for calc. I use it for all the small calculation, as it most often behaves slightly better than bc ``` $ echo "1/2" | bc 0 $ echo "1/2" | bc -l .50000000000000000000 $…
  brute on HN

Name collides with existing calc calculator
From 2 comments
- An 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…
  clarry on HN
- This developer could have at least chosen a different name. Two programs, same funcionality, same name. Haven't we learnt anything?
  hobarrera on HN
Lacks RPN input, which is tiring with parentheses
From 1 comment
- I 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…
  qguv on HN
Too many similar tools already exist
From 2 comments
- I 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…
  qguv on HN
- Every small tool deserves special launching site and promoting if it's "written in go" or some other hyped language.
  EugeneOZ on HN

Is there an RPN mode or a way to modify it to RPN
From 1 comment
- I 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…
  qguv on HN

calc (chongo) arbitrary precision calculator
From 1 comment
- An 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…
  clarry on HN
wcalc
From 2 comments
- I've been using wcalc personally, haven't had many reasons to use something else.
  mackal on HN
- 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! ->…
  donpdonp on HN
Qalculate
From 1 comment
- Qalculate has both a GUI and a command-line `qalc` util that does what `calc` seems to do and much more: http://qalculate.sourceforge.net/
  EmanueleAina on HN
dc and bc
From 2 comments
- The algorithm I use combines shunting-yard and postfix (RPN) evaluation, but I guess it wouldn't be too hard to modify the source to just do the RPN part. If you want to try…
  alfredxing on HN
- Upvoted for calc. I use it for all the small calculation, as it most often behaves slightly better than bc ``` $ echo "1/2" | bc 0 $ echo "1/2" | bc -l .50000000000000000000 $…
  brute on HN