Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 27th Nov 2006 10:14 UTC, submitted by Rob Newcater
OSNews, Generic OSes "If like me, you do most of your work from the command-line, using vim to edit files, mutt for e-mails, cd/ls/mv/find/etc instead of a file manager, then you may get annoyed by having to fire up a GUI calculator to make (what may sometimes be) a single calculation. This article shows how to quickly perform standard calculations on the command line."
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eikehein
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2005-10-19

KDE's "Run Command" dialog (usually bound to Alt+F2) can perform simple calculations as well. Try typing 2+2 and hit return! ;)