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What is bc?
by fireattack 7y ago
What is bc?
- mindcrime 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bc_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bc_(programming_language)
- zosterops 7y agoAn arbitrary precision calculator language. It can be used as a scripting language or from an interactive shell. It is part of POSIX so you are running Linux you probably have it installed.
- jumelles 7y agoIf you're using bc for the first time, be aware that you almost certainly want to run bc -l -- otherwise no decimals will be displayed and you'll get whole number answers to everything. The -l flag changes that behavior to instead use 20 decimal points.