Comments on: How to Use GNU bc (Basic Calculator) in Linux

By: Dieter Mueller

Dieter Mueller — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 15:40:40 +0000

I used Linux for many years. Now I have an HP desktop. I’m very dissatisfied with the way the “Giant” is making changes without my consent. I was trying to change back to LINUX but I’m not sure that all my “simple” contents are getting lost.

If I can change it back to LINUX without losing it – I will change it immediately. Microsoft changes my products during the night without consent. I would like to change if I do not have losses. Please let me know. Thanks

By: Rock Brentwood

Rock Brentwood — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 05:31:00 +0000

echo "n = 5, x = 3, i = 0, y = 1; a: if (i < n) { i++, y *= x; goto a; } else y;" | cbc

(It returns 243.)

C-BC is now on GitHub: https://github.com/RockBrentwood/CBC

C-BC is significantly larger than GNU BC. I'm fixing to fork and graft GNU BC, itself, into C-BC which is also about to under another upward revision (the switch statement was added in, in the last revision). Among other things, the I/O primitives might be remade into primitives for multi-threaded concurrency in a manner similar to Go.

By: Kieran

Kieran — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 01:29:26 +0000

I am using BestCalculator, Shipwreck software, which utilizes bcBasic.

I’ve written two short programs which work perfectly but the third very similar one using the same variables and the same equation keeps coming up with the left side variable being NaN or, after I set one of the right-hand constants at a value instead of zero, ‘infinity’.

By: Kevin Reynolds

Kevin Reynolds — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 08:43:06 +0000

In reply to Aaron Kili.

You got it! And thank you too!

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 05:53:25 +0000

In reply to bluebat.

@bluebat

Thanks for sharing.