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Use CalcService for easier image resizing
Authored by: readparse on Jan 20, '04 08:58:09AM
OS X missed it's chance to give me a calculator, with that gawdawful slow thing that came in Jaguar and previous. I eventually realized that Google is also a calculator, evaluating expressions just like this hint discusses, with all kinds of constants also (pi, "mass of earth", etc) and units conversion ("2.34 miles in inches," for example, or "9 gallons in tablespoons").

Anyway, I noticed that Calculator.app is better than it used to be, it seems, but Google has taken over. Well, except for quick and very simple calculations at the command line, in which case I use "bc" (basic calculator):

echo "3456 * 54" | bc

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