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'''bc''' ("basic calculator") is the standard calculator for [[Unix]] systems. <br>
bc boasts unlimited precision, to handle numbers with very many digits. <br>
With the bc language, you can write programs that perform numeric calculations
and print the results.
;See also :
bc has an interactive mode, which is convenient for brief calculations.▼
* [[wp:Bc programming language|Bc programming language]] on Wikipedia
* [[:Category:Dc|dc]] - the unix '''d'''esktop '''c'''alculator.
$ '''bc'''
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1111111010000000
Division and <tt>sqrt</tt> will not give an infinite number of digits.
The special variable <tt>scale</tt> controls when to stop.
$ '''bc'''
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1.414213562373095048801688724209698078569671875376948073176679
bc language resembles [[C|C language]]: bc has most of the same operators
and control structures ('if', 'while', 'for'). <br>
Expressions print themselves, unless they are assignments. <br>
The newline is a statement separator, like the semicolon.
bc has excellent numeric operations, but is a poor language.
The original bc, the "Bell Calculator" of Unix V7,
translated the program to [[dc]] and inherited the limitations of [[dc]].
* Names of variables, and custom functions, may have only one letter.
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* There are no boolean operators (! && ||).
Some newer implementations, like [[GNU bc]] and [[OpenBSD bc]],
discard these silly limitations, but users can still feel their effects. <br>
OpenBSD says, "a = b < c is interpreted as "(a = b) < c, which is probably not what the programmer intended," and "!a < b is interpreted as !(a < b)".
bc can only print a string, and has no other string operations,
so bc cannot do tasks like [[reverse a string]]. <br>
bc has no way to read user input, except to go to interactive mode
after loading a program.
[[Category:Mathematical programming languages]]
[[Category:Utility]]
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