12 Sep
2014
12 Sep
'14
4:04 a.m.
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014, Warner Losh wrote:
I?d always heard ?binary calculator? but I don?t have
a good reference
for that.
I've heard "binary" because it used binary arithmetic (and limited
precision), and "basic" because it was a lot simpler than "dc" (which
I've
always thought was "decimal" calculator due to it using arbitrary
precision decimal arithmetic).
-- Dave