Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 20:21:26 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1014517286.925557@mired.org> To: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice sought re MS Office compatibility Message-ID: <15473.46758.516892.756570@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <86heoez02j.fsf@ness.aae.uiuc.edu> References: <15473.33682.353887.609959@guru.mired.org> <86heoez02j.fsf@ness.aae.uiuc.edu>
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D. Michael McFarland <dmmcf@uiuc.edu> 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. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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