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Re:Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust by icebraining on Saturday July 01, 2017 @03:20AM (#14675850) 

  $ echo $((1 + 2 * 3 - 4))
  3
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Re:Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust by vbernat on Saturday July 01, 2017 @03:26AM (#14675874)
With zsh, you can even save a few keystrokes.

  function c() {
    echo $(($@))
  }
  alias c='noglob c'
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Re:Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust by jplatte on Sunday July 02, 2017 @11:06AM (#14682802)
zsh can handle floating point arithmetic too, while bash can't.
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