Hi,
Dan Hitt wrote:
> I'm half-way looking for some shell wrappers for common trig functions like
> sin, cos, exp, log, and others.
>
> I'm aware of bc, but it seems cumbersome.
>
> I would like to just type 'sin 1' and get the sine (of 1 radian), or type
> 'log 2' and get the natural or maybe common log of 2. (Probably any such
> program should do something intelligent when faced with multiple or zero
> arguments, such as computing the sine or log of each, so that they could be
> chained together. And maybe such a program would pay attention to
> environment variables or optional command line arguments to tune its
> behavior.)
to put in a word for bc...
Did you try "bc -l"? "man bc" gives more details
To get the sine of 1 radian:
s(1)
To get the log 2:
l(2)
Similar are exp, cosine, arctangent:
e(), c(), a()
Don't miss the fact that "." is the last result. Try out e.g.
8^2
./2
Best regards,
Klaus.
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Klaus Singvogel
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