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Basic Calc functionality for engineering or electronics

Christopher Howard (he/him) - IRC: lispmacs or lispmacs[work], gemini capsule: gemini://gem.librehacker.com, christopher@librehacker.com

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Schedule for SaturdaySaturday 9:00- 9:10 Saturday opening remarkssat-open 9:10- 9:20 Making Org-Babel reactiveorg-babel 9:30- 9:55 Emacs as a fully-fledged reference managerreference10:15-10:40 org-gmail: A deep integration of Gmail into your Org Modegmail10:50-11:15 Reading and writing emails in GNU Emacs with Gnusgnus11:25-11:45 LaTeX export in org-mode: the overhaullatex 1:00- 1:25 Basic Calc functionality for engineering or electronicscalc 1:35- 2:15 Blee-LCNT: An Emacs-centered content production and self-publication frameworkblee-lcnt 2:35- 2:40 GNU Emacs Greader (Gnamù Reader) mode is the best Emacs mode in existencegreader 2:50- 3:40 Open sessionopen-mic 4:00- 4:10 Saturday closing remarks / open sessionsat-close 9:30- 9:55 One year progress update Schemacs (formerly Gypsum)schemacs10:15-10:35 Juicemacs: exploring speculative JIT compilation for ELisp in Javajuicemacs10:45-11:10 Swanky Python: Interactive development for Pythonswanky11:20-11:40 Interactive Python programming in Emacspython 1:00- 1:25 Emacs, editors, and LLM driven workflowsllm 1:45- 2:05 Emacs and private AI: a great matchprivate-ai 2:25- 2:55 Common Lisp images communicating like-a-human through shared Emacs slime and eevcommonlisp 3:05- 3:30 Modern Emacs/Elisp hardware/software accelerated graphicsgraphics9 AM10 AM11 AM12 PM1 PM2 PM3 PM4 PM5 PM

Format: 24-min talk ; Q&A: IRC https://chat.emacsconf.org/?join=emacsconf,emacsconf-gen Etherpad: https://pad.emacsconf.org/2025-calc
Etherpad: https://pad.emacsconf.org/2025-calc
Discuss on IRC: #emacsconf-gen
Status: Ready to stream

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Saturday, Dec 6 2025, ~1:00 PM - 1:25 PM EST (US/Eastern)
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Saturday, Dec 6 2025, ~12:00 PM - 12:25 PM CST (US/Central)
Saturday, Dec 6 2025, ~11:00 AM - 11:25 AM MST (US/Mountain)
Saturday, Dec 6 2025, ~10:00 AM - 10:25 AM PST (US/Pacific)
Saturday, Dec 6 2025, ~6:00 PM - 6:25 PM UTC
Saturday, Dec 6 2025, ~7:00 PM - 7:25 PM CET (Europe/Paris)
Saturday, Dec 6 2025, ~8:00 PM - 8:25 PM EET (Europe/Athens)
Saturday, Dec 6 2025, ~11:30 PM - 11:55 PM IST (Asia/Kolkata)
Sunday, Dec 7 2025, ~2:00 AM - 2:25 AM +08 (Asia/Singapore)
Sunday, Dec 7 2025, ~3:00 AM - 3:25 AM JST (Asia/Tokyo)
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Description

An introduction to some of the basic Algebra and Calculus functionality in Calc, as might be useful in engineering or electronics.

About the speaker:

Christopher Howard is a simulator technician in Fairbanks, Alaska, and a GNU Emacs user for a little over a decade. My technical interests are focused on analog computing and modeling with differential equations.

Questions or comments? Please e-mail christopher@librehacker.com

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