Overview of features Operators: +, -, *, /, !, % Groups: (), ⌈⌉, ⌋⌊ Pre-defined functions and constants User-defined functions and variables User-defined units (experimental) Understands fairly ambiguous syntax. Eg. 2sin50 + 2xy Syntax highlighting Completion for special symbols on tab Sum functions Operators +, -, *, / ! Factorial, eg. 5! gives 120 % Percent, eg. 5% gives 0.05, 10 + 50% gives 15 % Modulus (remainder), eg. 23 % 3 gives 2 Completion for special symbols You can type special symbols (such as √) by typing the normal function or constant name and pressing tab. sqrt becomes √ deg becomes ° pi becomes π sum becomes Σ() tau becomes τ phi becomes ϕ floor becomes ⌊⌋ ceil becomes ⌈⌉ gamma becomes Γ ( becomes () Variables Variables are defined with the following syntax: name = value Example: x = 3/4 Functions Functions are defined with the following syntax: name(param1, param2, etc.) = value Examples: f(x) = 2x+3; A(x, y) = (xy)/2 They are used like this: name(arg1, arg2, etc.) Example: f(3) + 3 A(2, 3) Predefined functions sin, cos, tan, cot, csc, sec sinh, cosh, tanh, coth, csch, sech asin, acos, atan, acot, acsc, asec asinh, acosh, atanh, acoth, acsch, asech abs, ceil or ⌈⌉, floor or ⌊⌋, frac, round, trunc sqrt or √, cbrt, exp, log, ln gamma or Γ asinh, acosh, atanh, acoth, acsch, asech min, max, hyp log Eg. log(1000, 10) is the same as log10(1000) root Eg. root(16, 3) is the same as 3√16 sum Eg. sum(1, 4, 2n), example below Sum function The sum function lets you sum an expression with an incrementing variable. It takes three arguments: start value, end value, and expression. If you press tab after typing out "sum", it will be replaced with a sigma symbol. The expression is what will be summed, and will be able to use the "n" variable, which represents the current value between the start value and the end value. The value of "n" increments. Example: sum(1, 4, 2n) will be the same as 2*1 + 2*2 + 2*3 + 2*4 = 20 This can for example be used to calculate e: Σ(0, 10000, 1/n!) = 2.7182818284590455 More precision can be gotten by changing the "--precision" flag. Run `kalk --help` for more info. Constants pi or π = 3.14159265 e = 2.71828182 tau or τ = 6.2831853 phi or ϕ = 1.61803398