Bc
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bc is a calculator for the console. It works like this:
$ bc bc 1.06 Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details type `warranty'. 1+1 2 quit $
By default, numbers are treated as integers, but you can set the number of fraction digits to retain and display by setting the variable scale like this:
scale=0 1/3 0 scale=5 1/3 .33333
As you might guess from this, you can assign values to other variables, and use them in calculations like this:
foo=1/3 foo*3 .99999
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See also
- Console
- dc - reverse-polish arbitrary precision calculator
- factor - Factor positive integers.
- seq - Show number sequences.