16 Feb
2022
16 Feb
'22
8:58 a.m.
On Tue, 15 Feb 2022, Will Senn wrote:
bc is my all time favorite calculator. I feel
incomplete whenever I sit down
at a Windows machine and have to pull up the so-called calculator there. And
nothing beats it for simple base conversion, either. As a front-end for dc
it's fun to have students wonder about the dual processes, then show them how
they work together. Really good example of the unix way of doing things. Too
bad they went and combined them in recent days.
You can use GNU's bc on Windows - that's what I do ;)
-uso.