From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Getting used to Calc's Radian convention Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 09:43:10 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87r3zgvucx.fsf@vsl28t2g.ww011> References: <87bnqklkg8.fsf@debian.uxu> <26301a71-0d4b-4ac5-bf8a-c1deb3f236bd@googlegroups.com> <87zje4hyvt.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410594342 17656 80.91.229.3 (13 Sep 2014 07:45:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 07:45:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 13 09:45:35 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XSi1Q-0003UX-Vw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2014 09:45:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48823 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSi1Q-0001IA-L8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2014 03:45:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33270) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSi19-0001GK-UP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2014 03:45:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSi14-0000wQ-2c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2014 03:45:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38498) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSi13-0000vL-Si for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2014 03:45:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XSi12-0003Io-GM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2014 09:45:04 +0200 Original-Received: from p4fd4fb19.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([79.212.251.25]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2014 09:45:04 +0200 Original-Received: from dieter by p4fd4fb19.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2014 09:45:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p4fd4fb19.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:r3fa1Cmd7714wSn/ejJkTUKgruA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99872 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg 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