bc and built-in funcs

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On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 7:35 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> 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