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Developer(s) | Robert Morris and Lorinda Cherry of Bell Labs |
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Initial release | 1975, 48–49 years ago |
Operating system | Unix, Unix-like, Plan 9, FreeDOS |
Platform | Cross-platform |
Type | Command |
bc, for basic calculator, is "an arbitrary-precision calculator language" with syntax similar to the C programming language. bc is typically used as either a mathematical scripting language or as an interactive mathematical shell.