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On Tue, 15 Feb 2022, Will Senn wrote:

> bc is my all time favorite calculator. I feel incomplete whenever I sit down 
> at a Windows machine and have to pull up the so-called calculator there. And 
> nothing beats it for simple base conversion, either. As a front-end for dc 
> it's fun to have students wonder about the dual processes, then show them how 
> they work together. Really good example of the unix way of doing things. Too 
> bad they went and combined them in recent days.

You can use GNU's bc on Windows - that's what I do ;)

-uso.