diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'academic/wcalc/README')
-rw-r--r-- | academic/wcalc/README | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/academic/wcalc/README b/academic/wcalc/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c1522dce07 --- /dev/null +++ b/academic/wcalc/README @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +wcalc (command-line scientific calculator) + +Wcalc is a very capable command-line calculator. It has standard +functions (sin, asinh, and sqrt for example, in either radians or +degrees), many pre-defined constants (pi, e, c, G, etc.), support +for using variables, "active" variables, a command history, +hex/octal/binary input and output, unit conversions, embedded +comments, and the ability to save history to a file and load it +from a file. Wcalc evaluates expressions using the standard order of +operations. + +Wcalc uses intuitive expressions. For example, Wcalc will evaluate +5sin 4!-7*2(4%6)^2 to be -221.96631678. |