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Re: Evaluation of "standard" style math expresssions.
From: |
Albert Reiner |
Subject: |
Re: Evaluation of "standard" style math expresssions. |
Date: |
21 Sep 2004 14:10:15 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
[Alex Polite <m4@polite.se>, 21 Sep 2004 11:48:13 GMT]:
> Hi there.
>
> I know how to evaluate mathematical expressions expressed in lisp in
> any emacs buffer. (eg (+ 17 42))
>
> But I'd like to be able to eval expression where the notation is the
> kind you learn in school (eg (17 + 42))
M-x calc 1 7 + 4 2 RET; q to quit calc again.
Or if you have the maxima CAS <http://maxima.sourceforge.net/>
installed, you can simply use maxima-minor-mode or maxima-minibuffer
to do much more than adding numbers. (Don't know whether this works
on windows.)
Albert.