Hacker GitHub

← All repos

lcn2/calc

View on GitHub ↗ ★ 456 C

C-style arbitrary precision calculator

7 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2021-04-03 · latest 2026-05-23

Mentions per year 7 mentions · busiest year 2024 (3)
20082026
  1. …convert between bases and if you like RPN. - Calc it's better if you want to cover complex numbers: https://github.com/lcn2/calc - Qalc from libqalculate in order to solve some equations in legacy machines. It's lighter and smaller than…
  2. …the math library. Ditto with bc -l. Calc has an arbitrary decimal precision and it's really fast. https://github.com/lcn2/calc
  3. I like calc paired with gnuplot. https://github.com/lcn2/calc inb4 dc(1)/bc(1)... calc supports complex numbers, C-like pseudo structures/functions, custom decimal points and lots more. Also, calc/gnuplot will run on a toaster or even…
    comment by anthk · 2023-10-12 · in Desmos 3D graphing calculator
  4. …> 3-3.01 -0.009999999999999787 Other calculators such as calc [1] don't have these issues 1. https://github.com/lcn2/calc
    comment by shaicoleman · 2021-12-24 · in SpeedCrunch
  5. Even proer tip: https://github.com/lcn2/calc Can't live without that one in $PATH.
    comment by seba_dos1 · 2021-04-03 · in Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?