Re: New library num-base-converters

[Tino Calancha]

On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, raman wrote:

> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
>
> this functionality is present in calculator.el --
> I've never called it from lisp though. That module provides additional
> conversions --- including radians->degrees etc.
Thanks.
Sure, you can get this functionality with calc.el as well:
indeed num-base-converters.el internally calls `calc-number-radix'.

One point of this library is the convenience of not having to
know anything about neither calculator.el nor calc.el to get
the answer with easy.

Every Emacs user will understand the following:
M-x nbc-hex2dec ff RET
"ff hexadecimal = 255 decimal"

M-: (nbc-oct2dec "644") RET
=> 420

;; Or just `hex2dec' and `oct2dec' if you customize
;; `nbc-define-aliases' to non-nil.