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bc (basic calculator) and libraries of functions
02-09-2018, 03:21 PM
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Maximilian Hohmann Offline
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RE: bc (basic calculator) and libraries of functions
Hello!

I vaguely remember "bc" from my unix days (ca. 1989-2000). BTW: Not only Linux has one on board, but every Macintosh running OS X as well.

In one of your linked articles I instantly found this droll piece of explanation:
"bc was preceded by dc, an earlier arbitrary-precision calculator written by the same authors. dc could do arbitrary-precision calculations, but its reverse Polish notation (RPN) syntax was inconvenient for users".

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