desk-calculator for ANSII-terminal (vt100)

[Dan_Jacobson at ATT.COM]

>>>>> On 27 Jun 91 13:48:43 GMT, km11hs at sbuvax.rz.uni-sb.de (Dieter Becker) said:

Dieter> I am looking for a PD desk-calculator with some scientific functions
Dieter> like log, sin, cos and a friendly "face". Programs, I know, are using
Dieter> only base-line-entry of data. I'm looking for a program which can be 
Dieter> used by everyone, not only by specialist. In our system (SINIX) there 
Dieter> is a program like this (using curses) but it is rather stupid.

Try
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The GNU Emacs Calculator
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"Calc" is an advanced desk calculator and mathematical tool that runs
as part of the GNU Emacs environment.
[...]
For your convenience, the FTP distribution of Calc, obtainable from
anonymous FTP on `csvax.cs.caltech.edu', ...
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can you believe it has a 400 page manual, on-line/paper!  GNU Emacs
itself is ftp'able from prep.ai.mit.edu.