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Subject: Re: Evaluating simple inline expressions in org-mode
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Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Wednesday,  3 Feb 2016 at 08:45, Gary Oberbrunner wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Of course I made up that {{{}}} syntax, that's not a real thing. I've seen
>> org-mode tables with calc, but I'm hoping for something simpler, just
>> inline math expression eval. (I'm fine with elisp, calc, whatever.)
>
> As Ken has shown¸ you can use babel for inline evaluation.  Note that
> Emacs calc is one of the languages supported by babel so src_calc(2*pi)

It must be src_calc{2*pi} though.

> works as well.  I'm not sure how you define variables in calc however...

You could write something like src_calc[:var x=3.41]{2*x} :-)

    Dieter
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