On 12/2/18 2:34 PM, Charles A Daniels wrote:
> Thanks to the help of Klemens, Brian, and Stuart, I have ported pcalc
> (originally written by Peter Glen, now maintained by Mike Frysinger).
>
> Brief description:
>
> Programmer's calculator, command line utility.
>
> There was always a loophole when it came to a need to covert
> between hexadecimal / decimal / octal / binary.
>
> Especially if it involved an operation like 0x1234 + 0x20 It
> took a lot of hard work, and mostly a good pocket calculator.
>
> Main features:
>
> o Full math parser, parentheses, add, sub, mult, div,
> exponential
> o Automatic conversion between HEX DEC OCT BIN numbers
> o Mixing different bases in one expression
> o Definable variables
> o Math constants (E PI ...)
> o Built in math functions (sin/cos/sqrt ...)
>
> I believe the port is ready for consideration to be added to the ports
> tree. However, testing on other architectures is is needed - I only have
> amd64 and macppc machines personally, and part of the test suite fails
> on macppc (reported upstream: https://github.com/vapier/pcalc/issues/7).
> If you have a system with another arch, please let me know if `make
> test` is able to run successfully!
>
This version is much nicer.
~Brian
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