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

[Jay Maynard]

In article <4079 at awdprime.UUCP> tif at doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain) writes:
>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  :-)

OK...but what's the bc equivalent to <DEC>64<f><WSIZE>564<CHS><HEX>? (For
those of you who aren't lucky enough to own a 16C, and haven't gotten rpn
running, that sets a word size of 64 bits, and then shows the hex value of
the two's complement of 564.)

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

Without scale=, it's next to impossible to get a useful answer from bc.

Calculator designers work very hard at making their products usable with
little to no effort. Why reinvent wheels?

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