How do you calculate?

[Gabor Szabo]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Geoff Shang <geoff at 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-|