2008/6/19 Robert Dober <robert.dober / gmail.com>: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Ron Fox <fox / nscl.msu.edu> wrote: >> The Beatle's LSD experience sounds like a better topic ;-) > I protest LSD is not even open source :) Isn't it amazing that apparently they have people in their company that can report on The Beatles's LSD experience? Wow! This must be a cool place to work. ;-) On topic: you could use IRB as a simple desktop calculator. Maybe simple math like plus and minus and then probably a bit more complex like defining an array with all relevant values and then summing, averaging etc. them. Cheers robert -- use.inject do |as, often| as.you_can - without end