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029 RR Keeping Up with Gowalla — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:49:10 +0000

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Frattanto nella blogosfera #44 « Ok, panico — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:27:42 +0000

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» A quick twitter bot, @bc_l hilarymason.com — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 04:42:01 +0000

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Human Mathematics — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:14:46 +0000

More surprises:

-limits to ibase and obase

-using single-letter variable names

-sqrt, an exception to your variable rules and to the need for e(l(x)/2).

-basic programming syntax

Emacs calculator — The Endeavour — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:45:14 +0000

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Math Teachers at Play #29 « The Number Warrior — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:50:35 +0000

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A quick twitter bot, @bc_l — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:29:45 +0000

[...] John Cook mentions the bot and makes some great observations in his post three surprises with bc. [...]

EastwoodDC — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:08:49 +0000

> bc is also great for proving that 6*9=42.

Somebody knows their Douglas Adams.

Pádraig Brady — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:08:08 +0000

There are other integer functions that I wish were included by default, like min(), max(), ... I've added those to my environment using: the script

ozhank — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:30:12 +0000

bc is also great for proving that 6*9=42.

set obase=13
set ibase=10
6 * 9
42

or for proving that 1 + 1 = 10
set obase = 2
set ibase = 10
1 + 1
10

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