Re: Two short questions about calc

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 01:08:33AM +0200, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've now decided to learn a bit more about Calc so I can use it as my
> daily calculator.  Now I have these two questions:
> 
> (1) In my init file I set calc-symbolic-mode -> t and calc-prefer-frac >
> t because I prefer that most of the time.

This cribbed from the Calc manual:

   The ‘c f’ (‘calc-float’) [‘pfloat’] command converts the number
   on the top of the stack to floating-point form.  For example,
   ‘23’ is converted to ‘23.0’, ‘3:2’ is converted to ‘1.5’, and
   ‘2.3’ is left the same.

...if you don't mind losing precision. If you do, then (1) was a trick
question ;-)

Cheers
 - t

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