Today I accidentally I found a calculator on my computer, bc. Let’s look at it!

Here’s how I entered the bc REPL.

bc

Here’s me adding, a few different ways:

# REPL!
$ bc
>>> 1 + 1
2

# Eval!
$ bc -e "1 + 2"
3

# File!
$ cat add
1 + 3
$ bc -f add
4

I’m reading the author’s website and may have some more tips and tricks next time!