Quick math on the terminal

Hey there! Just this past week I stumbled on a HN comment from 2019. The commenter was fiddling with some scripts to perform some simple math directly on the (bash) terminal. TLDR: Click here to go to the code and skip the backstory. What the commenter proposed was something like this, based on the dc command (comments are mine). $ . calc.sh # Load functionality $ * 4 5 # Multiply 4 and 5 20 $ / 21 3 # Divide 21 by 3 7 This sounded interesting. [Read More]