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gavinhoward / bc

bc

An implementation of the POSIX bc calculator with GNU extensions and dc. Finished.

4Distinct people
7Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
254GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

An implementation of the POSIX bc calculator with GNU extensions and dc. Finished.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:45:45 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year7 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-09-25 15:34:15 UTC to 2025-07-21 18:15:26 UTC.

01232021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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You're welcome. :) > I've bookmarked your gitea bc repo, not just for bc, but as an example of a neatly managed FOSS project, like providing performance comparison, fuzzing, project structure, the fact of using self-hosted gitea itself, etc Thank you! It's good to know that my project is actually good; sometimes I wonder if I am just full of myself. XD > Skimming through [1], I see neither of Winget [2] nor Chocolatey [3] have any `bc` implementations as of yet. Maybe you can send them a PR? It may help adoption in other distros in the future. I will do that. However, I might wait until I accept a PR that was just made [1] that will fix issues on Windows. I am not good at Windows, so there are problems. > Hope your implementation wins ;) Thank you. :) [1]: https://github.com/gavinhoward/bc/pull/38
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