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I would add bc to the list, very useful to make occasional calculations from command line using "human readable" syntax.
by ruslan 7y ago
I would add bc to the list, very useful to make occasional calculations from command line using "human readable" syntax.
- bonzini 7y agoFun fact, the first version of bc was just a frontend to dc. It converted the structured input to dc's stack-based form and let dc do the math.
- ruslan 7y agoDid not know that, thanks. I searched for dc inside bc and could find a reference to /usr/bin/dc, so I think bc still is just a wrapper. % uname -a FreeBSD skyrocket 9.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE #1: Fri Nov 27 20:28:19 UTC 2015
- bonzini 7y agoGNU bc isn't though they share the bignum code, I am not surprised that the BSDs are following the older implementation more closely!