From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Calculator vs Calc Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:34:10 +0100 Organization: On the Interweb somewhere Message-ID: <877cot0w8t.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38508"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: gnus (Emacs 30.0.50) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:vWSRpvQe4C7pxVjCCcIkt7vea38= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 14 14:36:13 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qglZt-0009oK-1g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2023 14:36:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qglYN-0002xo-Hb; Thu, 14 Sep 2023 08:34:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qglY4-0002qq-5b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2023 08:34:21 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qglY2-0008QC-8j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2023 08:34:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qglXy-0006ME-H3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2023 14:34:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Url: http://twitter.com/ericsfraga/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:145124 Archived-At: On Thursday, 14 Sep 2023 at 14:00, Maske wrote: > Is there a relationship between calc.el and calculator.el. Or are > completely different? I do not believe there is any relationship between the two. The calculator is just what it says on the tin: a calculator. Calc, on the other hand, is much more: it is a computer algebra system which means it can work symbolically with variables etc. Calc, however, can be used as just a "calculator" so I would recommend learning Calc as it gives you everything. However, calculator may be easier to get up to speed with. Depends on what you want to achieve longer term. -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-09-14) on Debian 12.1