Calculator Question.....

[wbee]

Hello,

I was adding up deductions prior to feeding the totals to income tax software,using the furnished Gnome calculator.

Example,if you add five three times,you get 5+5+5,and I was adding so many numbers it overloaded and would not give me a total.

Is there a way (or another calculator) that would express the addition above as adding five to zero,and then adding five to get ten,then adding five to ten to get fifteen,and so forth?

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Thank you.

[Frogs Hair]

I'm not on Ubuntu at the moment , but the calculator has an avanced option located in the Window menu and other calculators in the software center.

[mcduck]

Hello,

I was adding up deductions prior to feeding the totals to income tax software,using the furnished Gnome calculator.

Example,if you add five three times,you get 5+5+5,and I was adding so many numbers it overloaded and would not give me a total.

Is there a way (or another calculator) that would express the addition above as adding five to zero,and then adding five to get ten,then adding five to ten to get fifteen,and so forth?

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Thank you.

The expression you are looking for is 5*n (n being how many times you want to add 5 to the value). ;)

Anyway, if you want to try some other calculator, I really recommend Qualculate (http://qalculate.sourceforge.net/). Simple-looking small tool that packs a really serious set of tools and features under the hood. There are separate version for both Gnome & KDE desktops available in Ubuntu repositories, so make sure you get the correct one.

[sanderd17]

The expression you are looking for is 5*n (n being how many times you want to add 5 to the value). ;)

Anyway, if you want to try some other calculator, I really recommend Qualculate (http://qalculate.sourceforge.net/). Simple-looking small tool that packs a really serious set of tools and features under the hood. There are separate version for both Gnome & KDE desktops available in Ubuntu repositories, so make sure you get the correct one.

I searched for it, and the name is Qalculate, not Qualculate.

But indeed, a great tool for simple calculations and it has advanced features too.

[mcduck]

I searched for it, and the name is Qalculate, not Qualculate.
Good point, although it really would be "Qalculate!" :D

[troymius]

Wbee... I wrote a little calculator that does perhaps what you are looking for (http://pascalc.com/cgi-bin/calc.cgi?a=...&b=eNqrqfHIVChPSk3VUcgsVijJABLlGYklCpX5pQoZiWWpCpl5 CrmZeSn2NTWmNTWJecXa2ChdcyNjKN_IDMIoyNQ3qqkxAACL7i JH#here)?

It is an on-line thing, not an Ubuntu/Linux application (sorry... although I developed it on Ubuntu and it is hosted on Linux). It has been my hobby project for a couple of years now. I am mechanical engineer, not a programmer.