On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:41:02AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > I'm in America (USA to be specific), and I avoid math whenever I can. > > It's calculators for me, whenever possible. :-) > > Is it bad of me that I avoid calculators whenever possible and instead go > for a Python prompt? :D
What's wrong with bc? One of the things that first impressed me about Linux was that bc could calculate 2^(2^22) and the Windows calculator couldn't. I think, btw, that "maths" is used throughout the British Commonwealth, and that mathematics used to be a singular noun more often than not but is now usually plural. Likewise politics, economics and similar words. I wonder if this has something to do with the fact that Greek and Latin neuter plurals (such as "mathematica") regularly take a singular verb? -- PJR :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
