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dc (for desk calculator, "desktop calculator") is a command-line calculator that uses reverse Polish notation and allows unlimited arithmetic precision. This is one of the oldest Unix commands, prior to the C programming language.
The bc calculator, which uses the most common infixed notation, was originally created as a higher level programming interface at dc. Current implementations are no longer technically related. Notes and edit the code
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