Suggestion: Preinstall a basic calculator

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I hope a basic calculator can be preinstalled in Whonix xfce variant. I always expecte a calculator to be preinstalled on any system with a GUI so it came as a suprise when I searched for calculator and all I got is libreoffice-calc. (possibly because debian xfce default installation doesn’t have a preinstalled calculator)

I think mate-calc is enough for this purpose.

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python3 in the terminal is good enough for me, at least for simple calculations.

A warning though - the commands are saved in ~/.python_history

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Please don’t make it impossible for non-programmers to calculate basic stuff. I don’t think it should be the direction of an operating system project, even though I know how to use bc .

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For basic calculations, no programming knowledge is required. Just type the calculation, for example:

>>> 2+5
7
>>> 2.3*2
4.6
>>> 10000/4
2500.0
>>> 3*(8+1)
27

Exponents:
>>> 2**3
8

Square root:
>>> 81**0.5
9
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