Andrew Hyatt's emacs calc tutorials
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Andrew Hyatt's emacs calc tutorials
If you use Emacs, then perhaps surprisingly one of the best places to hang out is the Google+ Emacs community.
You also may or may not be aware of the
calc
facility embedded in Emacs. It seems to be one of the lesser-known
features, and even among those who do know about it, many are unaware
how sophisticated it is. You can invoke it with M-x calc, or C-x * * and at first glance it seems quite primitive… until you read the
manual, at which point it can instead seem impenetrable!
Hidden underneath the spartan, stack-based interface is matrix and vector arithmetic, date and time calculations, unit-aware calculations and conversion, symbolic manipulation, and on it goes.
Nearly a year ago Andrew Hyatt posted a series of tutorials that explored a lot of the corners, but one of the weaknesses of Google+ is that content can be hard to aggregate or find again.
So, when I remembered the other day I went back and dug up all the ones I could find, in order to provide a pointer back to them! Just as I was completing the list I discovered that there is already one archive on the EmacsWiki, but one more is certainly not going to hurt discoverability.
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