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This is really nice and all, but what I (and probably many others) would love is an alternative to `bc`. It's so useful but also so limited.


Can you elaborate? I think I know what you mean, but when I clicked the link it already seemed to be a "more advanced bc" to me. What are you missing, big numbers (that's what came to my mind)?


If you're looking for something more advanced while still at the command prompt, check out "calc":

http://isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/

On Fedora:

sudo dnf install calc ; alias bc=calc


what features from bc do you need? Have you seen calc (the calc package in debian/ubuntu)?




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