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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by fireattack on Monday September 23, 2019 @03:36PM (#21052711)
What is bc?
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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by jumelles on Monday September 23, 2019 @05:59PM (#21054214)
If 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.

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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by zosterops on Monday September 23, 2019 @03:56PM (#21052912)
An 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.
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Re:Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end? by mindcrime on Monday September 23, 2019 @03:49PM (#21052832)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bc_(programming_language)
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