From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 18 18:21:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 75C7E37B41A for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:21:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 61710 invoked by uid 100); 19 Feb 2002 02:21:27 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15473.46758.516892.756570@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 20:21:26 -0600 To: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice sought re MS Office compatibility In-Reply-To: <86heoez02j.fsf@ness.aae.uiuc.edu> References: <15473.33682.353887.609959@guru.mired.org> <86heoez02j.fsf@ness.aae.uiuc.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.46 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG D. Michael McFarland types: > Word and PowerPoint are necessities, unless I refuse to even pretend > to MS Office compatibility. No one is yet asking me to use Exel. > (Does it still claim -1^2 == +1?) I don't know, but the bc provided with FreeBSD does: guru% bc bc 1.06 Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details type `warranty'. -1^2 1 Because of ambiguities in common mathematical notation, there's at least one parsing for which it's the right answer. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message