bc and built-in funcs

[JD]

Hi all
I have:

$ rpm -q bc
bc-1.06.95-3.fc15.i686

I was searching the web for bc funs to calculate cube roots
and other arbitrary roots. Almost all of the func I found
assume that bc has the built-in funcs  l and e which take
a numeric arg.

Yet my bc has no such funcs.

Is the version above broken?

[JD]

Nevermind.
Forgot the -l to include the math lib in the script.

On 10/21/2012 06:35 PM, JD wrote:
> Hi all
> I have:
>
> $ rpm -q bc
> bc-1.06.95-3.fc15.i686
>
> I was searching the web for bc funs to calculate cube roots
> and other arbitrary roots. Almost all of the func I found
> assume that bc has the built-in funcs  l and e which take
> a numeric arg.
>
> Yet my bc has no such funcs.
>
> Is the version above broken?

[inode0]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 7:35 PM, JD  wrote:
> Hi all
> I have:
>
> $ rpm -q bc
> bc-1.06.95-3.fc15.i686
>
> I was searching the web for bc funs to calculate cube roots
> and other arbitrary roots. Almost all of the func I found
> assume that bc has the built-in funcs  l and e which take
> a numeric arg.
>
> Yet my bc has no such funcs.
>
> Is the version above broken?

Try running "bc -l" and see if you have them then.

John