[raspberry-vi] Re: Bingo!
- From: Tim Chase <raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 15:30:39 -0600
On January 8, 2014, Chris Norman wrote:
> It's a maths command isn't it? GIves you 64 bit maths on 32 bit
> architectures
It gives you an arbitrary precision (not just 64-bit) calculator. I
still use it as my calculator on the terminal when I don't have Python
available on a target platform (if I do have python, I just fire it
up and enter expressions there, as I don't usually have need for
greater precision than what it provides).
However, I was pretty sure that "bc" was one of the requirements for
the Linux Standards Base (LSB) and a quick check of Debian's
reverse-dependencies for "bc" suggests that this is the case. It
seems that some stripped-down systems lack "bc" (I just tried with a
Digi ConnectPort and it too lacked "bc", but strangely does include
"dc").
-tkc
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