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Meanwhile, bc(1) has been here all along: wtbob@wtbob:~$ bc bc 1.06.95 Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation,
by wtbob 11y ago
Meanwhile, bc(1) has been here all along:
wtbob@wtbob:~$ bc
bc 1.06.95
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
obase=16
17281580835365214242
EFD4823541245822
Twenty-four years and it's still working just fine!
edit: I can math
- SwellJoe 11y agoFourteen? Perhaps you should do that math again with bc.
- wtbob 11y agoHeh, 1991 seems like fifteen years ago…
- SwellJoe 11y agoGetting old is weird. I catch myself thinking of records released in 2005 as "new". (Even though I buy actual new music every week or two, and still remain relatively on top of modern music.)
- swah 11y agoI still get surprised I can buy booze. I'm 31.
- SwellJoe 11y agoI got carded recently. I'm old enough to have kids who are old enough to drink (I don't, but I could have).
- wtbob 11y agoI just read that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull came out seven years ago. I would have sworn it was two years ago, tops!
- wpietri 11y agobc 1.06.95 Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details type `warranty'. 2015 - 1991 24
- ratsmack 11y agoI prefer this C-style arbitrary precision calculator rather than bc. http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/
- a3n 11y agoI sometimes use "bc -l", but mostly I use ipython as my calculator.
- ginko 11y agoI usually just use python for my calculating needs. I've set up Win-P to launch a python terminal with math pre-imported for that purpose.
- fancy_pantser 11y agoI use python as a calculator all the time as well since longs have no limit. $ python Python 2.7.10 (default, Jul 14 2015, 19:46:27) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.39)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> hex(17281580835365214242) '0xefd4823541245822L'