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Chapter 7. Command line application

7.1. bc - An arbitrary precision calculator language

It is much more than a calculator, it is a language. Luckily we don't need to learn the whole language in order to to do simple calculations. Normally you execute 'bc' from the command line and then you type in your calculations. Pressing ENTER will do the calculation.


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