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An Update To Casual Calc

Posted on 2024-08-08 by jcs

Charles Choi has made another update to Casual Calc. This time it’s to provide a more contextual workflow. The idea is that that the Casual Calc menus should reflect the current context. I haven’t yet had a chance to play … Continue reading →

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Casual: A Porcelain For Calc

Posted on 2024-03-26 by jcs

Those of you who have been reading Irreal for a while know that I’m a huge fan of Emacs Calc. It’s tremendously flexible and comprehensive and it’s built into Emacs. But that comprehensiveness comes at a price: it’s very hard … Continue reading →

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Units in Emacs Calc

Posted on 2023-01-29 by jcs

As many of you know, I’m a big fan of Emacs Calc and use it as my calculator of choice whenever I’m on my laptop. Calc has robust conversion capabilities—to convert miles to kilometers, e.g.—but it can be a bit … Continue reading →

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Emacs Calc Video

Posted on 2022-01-11 by jcs

Over at the Calculator Culture Youtube Channel they have a nice Introductory video on the GNU Emacs calculator otherwise known as Calc. The thing about Calc is that’s it’s gigantic. It’s not Mathematica but it seems like it can do … Continue reading →

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Calc Formulae in the Minibuffer

Posted on 2021-07-19 by jcs

Tony Aldon has another quick video up that considers using Org-mode table formulae in the minibuffer. It’s a nice way of trying out a formula or even using them to make calculations and inserting the results into the current buffer. … Continue reading →

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Literate Calc Mode

Posted on 2020-10-28 by jcs

Robin Schroer has an interesting project that recently landed in MELPA. Many of you know that I’m a big fan of reproducible research and its handmaiden literate programming. Schroer’s project is a sort of light-weight Jupyter Notebook that’s integrated with … Continue reading →

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Emacscalc Script

Posted on 2019-08-05 by jcs

I’ve often written about how powerful and useful Emacs calc can be1. It is, I think, one of the most underrated features of Emacs. It’s a bit hard to learn, not because its default data entry mode is RPN but … Continue reading →

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VisiCalc Redux

Posted on 2019-07-07 by jcs

A month ago, I wrote about Dan Bricklin’s TED talk on VisiCalc. Bricklin’s talk was in honor of the 40th anniversary of the modern spreadsheet. The spreadsheet idea was an old one but it was so labor intensive that it … Continue reading →

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The Story of VisiCalc

Posted on 2019-05-30 by jcs

Via Karl Voit I found this video of Dan Bricklin telling the story of how VisiCalc came to be. Many younger Irreal readers probably don’t remember Lotus 1-2-3 let alone VisiCalc so it’s worth mentioning that VisiCalc was the first … Continue reading →

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Calc Tutorial

Posted on 2019-02-07 by jcs

Longtime Irreal readers with good memories will recall that sometime ago I resolved to get better with Emacs Calc. Although I haven’t written much about it, I have been making progress. It’s now my go-to calculator and I’ve learned all … Continue reading →

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