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Commands tagged bc
Terminal - Commands tagged bc - 8 results
using bc is for sissies. dc is much better :-D
Polish notation will rule the world...
-l auto-selects many more digits (but you can round/truncate in your head, right) plus it loads a few math functions like sin().
allows you to use floating point operations in shell scripts
When you've got a list of numbers each on its row, the ECHO command puts them on a simple line, separated by space. You can then substitute the spaces with an operator. Finally, pipe it to the BC program.
defines a handy function for quick calculations from cli.
once defined:
? 10*2+3
Easily convert numbers to their representations in different bases. Passing
"ibase=16; obase=8; F2A"
to bc will convert F2A (3882 in decimal) from Hex to Octal, and so on.
Useful for quick calculations at the command line. $math_expr is any arithmetic expression (see sample output):
4.5*16+3^2
s(3.1415926/2)
More options in the bc man page.