How does bc work

[Steve Searle]

Around 11:42am on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 (UK time), Dave Mitchell scrawled:

> On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 09:30:13AM +0100, Dan Track wrote:
> > Does anybody know where bc stores its calucation while calculating a
> > number. Basically I'm running 36000000^36000000.
> 
> Er, you do realise that result will have about 272 million digits?

So please don't post the result here :-)

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