From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Getting used to Calc's Radian convention
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 09:43:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3zgvucx.fsf@vsl28t2g.ww011> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87zje4hyvt.fsf@debian.uxu
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
> jay.p.belanger@gmail.com writes:
>
>> He's referring to Calc (part of Emacs), which can
>> work with units (such as meters, radians, etc.)
>>
>> Calc doesn't "know" that the rad probably shouldn't
>> be there; perhaps there could be a simple way of
>> telling it.
>
> Perhaps the shell tool 'units' can be used? That's what
> I always use to deal with the strange units from the
> UK, and the USA.
Yes somebody else suggested `units' to me and it seems also very
powerful, but I prefer to stay in Emacs, Calc really is a killer feature
for engineers!
Bye
Dieter
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany
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2014-09-12 19:15 ` Getting used to Calc's Radian convention Emanuel Berg
2014-09-13 2:26 ` jay.p.belanger
2014-09-13 5:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-13 7:43 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm [this message]
2014-09-13 7:41 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-09-12 6:47 H. Dieter Wilhelm
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