General Utilities

bc-1.06

Introduction to bc

The bc package contains an arbitrary precision numeric processing language.

Package information

bc dependencies

Required

readline-4.3

Installation of bc

Install bc by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../bc-1.06-flex_invocation-1.patch &&
patch -Np1 -i ../bc-1.06-readline-1.patch &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-readline &&
make &&
make install

Contents

The bc package contains bc and dc.

Description

bc

bc is a calculator.

dc

dc is a reverse-polish calculator.