On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Geoff Shang <ge...@quitelikely.com> wrote: > On Thu, 20 May 2010, Nadav Har'El wrote: > >> For years, I've been wondering: How do other Unix or Linux users do simple >> calculations? > > I use `bc -l`. I've been using it for so long now that I can't remember > exactly what clued me into needing `-l`, though I have a vague recollection > of a friend of mine telling me about it. I agree that having anything other > than `-l` as the default is rather nuts. I've been typing `bc -l` for > solong that to not type `-l` is an effort.
wow, and I have been sitting in the dark all these years and typing 2000/3 and moving 3 decimal points in my head to get to 2/3 ;-) Gabor now I am embarrassed 8-| _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
