On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 06:47:51AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > I've heard recommendation of bc before, but to date I've yet to > encounter anything that makes it seem preferable over calc, and I'm > curious what I'm missing.
Most probably you're missing nothing. I picked up bc years ago because it's a build dependency for the kernel. It solves my needs, and I happen to remember pi up to 8 digits so the lack of pi() function is not an issue to me. On a side note, "calc" is 4 letters, and "bc" is two :) Reco