Seeking SideKick-/spreadsheet-type functionality for AT&T 3B2

Paul Chamberlain tif at doorstop.austin.ibm.com
Wed Oct 31 01:59:42 AEST 1990


In article <4254 at lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard at thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
>bc is much less user-friendly than, say, an HP-16C...or the rpn program

Yea "(14-2)*3+5" is really hard compared to "14<ENTER>2-3*5+".    1/2  :-)

I admit, however, that trig and other complex functions don't work
as easily with bc.  (And "scale=" is important to learn.)

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