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From: Jay Belanger <belanger@truman.edu>
Subject: Re: Evaluation of "standard" style math expresssions.
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:35:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r7ovab45.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvllf37iay.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org


Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
...
>> M-x calc 1 7  + 4 2 RET; q to quit calc again.
>
> Hmm...that doesn't work here.  It works with M-x calculator, but with
> M-x calc it starts `Calc' which by default uses RPN notation.

Okay; how 'bout
M-x calc '17+42 RET
or even
M-x quick-calc (often M-# q)
which will prompt you for an expression in the minibuffer.

Jay

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-21 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-21 11:48 Evaluation of "standard" style math expresssions Alex Polite
2004-09-21 11:53 ` Joakim Hove
2004-09-21 12:07 ` Marco Parrone
2004-09-21 12:31   ` Alex Polite
2004-09-21 12:10 ` Albert Reiner
2004-09-21 15:29   ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-21 15:35     ` Jay Belanger [this message]
2004-09-21 17:50     ` Albert Reiner
2004-09-21 20:22       ` Stefan Monnier

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