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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Evaluating simple inline expressions in org-mode
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 16:09:07 +0000
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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=C2=B8 you can use babel for inline evaluation.  Note that
Emacs calc is one of the languages supported by babel so src_calc(2*pi)
works as well.  I'm not sure how you define variables in calc however...
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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.90.1, Org release_8.3.3-535-g7213aa