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bc



bc is an arbitrary precision numeric processing language.  Syntax is
similar to C, but differs in many substantial areas.  It supports
interactive execution of statements.  bc is a utility included in the
POSIX P1003.2/D11 draft standard.


Since the POSIX document does not specify how bc must be implemented,
this version does not use the historical method of having bc be a
compiler for the dc calculator.  This version has a single executable
that both compiles the language and runs the resulting `byte code'.
The byte code is not the dc language.


Online Manual is available at 
www.gnu.org/manual/bc/index.html



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11 Dec 1999 jonas