I don’t really understand how you could read the parent comment and then suggest bc as a reasonable equivalent. For one thing I find interacting with bc to not

I don’t really understand how you could read the parent comment and then suggest bc as a reasonable equivalent. For one thing I find interacting with bc to not be so interactive as gnu calc—you have to type one line at a time and it is hard to see intermediate results or make modifications. For a second thing, I don’t think bc includes: - differentiation - symbolic/numeric integration - equation solving/manipulation - unit conversion - graphing - vectors and matrices - functional array operations like map/reduce - statistical operations - a detailed manual Personally my main use of bc is: ... | paste -s -d+ | bc