Mac OS X ships with a powerful and useful command-line calculator called bc. GNU bc provides an arbitrary precision calculator that allows you to type in expressions for immediate calculation. It uses ...

When you spend as much time at the terminal as I do, having a calculator at your fingertips can be a really useful feature, and the Command-Line Fu web site tells us how to create one easily. To ...

Ooops! Two months ago, I started exploring how you can write a simple but quite helpful interactive command-line calculator as a shell script and ended the column ...

One thing that's always bothered me about Linux, and UNIX before it, is that there isn't a decent command-line calculator available. You know, something where you can type in solve 5+8 or, better, ...