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From: Albert Reiner <areiner@tph.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: Evaluation of "standard" style math expresssions.
Date: 21 Sep 2004 14:10:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vw8isa74yc8.fsf@berry.phys.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040921114408.GA2296@matijek.plusseven.com

[Alex Polite <m4@polite.se>, 21 Sep 2004 11:48:13 GMT]:
> Hi there.
> 
> I know how to evaluate mathematical expressions expressed in lisp in
> any emacs buffer.  (eg (+ 17 42))
> 
> But I'd like to be able to eval expression where the notation is the
> kind you learn in school (eg (17 + 42))

M-x calc 1 7  + 4 2 RET; q to quit calc again.

Or if you have the maxima CAS <http://maxima.sourceforge.net/>
installed, you can simply use maxima-minor-mode or maxima-minibuffer
to do much more than adding numbers.  (Don't know whether this works
on windows.)

Albert.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-21 12:10 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 [this message]
2004-09-21 15:29   ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-21 15:35     ` Jay Belanger
2004-09-21 17:50     ` Albert Reiner
2004-09-21 20:22       ` Stefan Monnier

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