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I need to do simple financial calculations on Linux and had been using wcalc for this until I stumbled upon a wrong result caused by floating-point number issues. Is there a calculator (I really would prefer the command-line) that one can rely on for this task? One that doesn't use floats internally?

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    What kind of operations must the calculator support? There's always bc, which is an arbitrary-precision arithmetic calculator. Commented Aug 18, 2019 at 15:29
  • Nothing special. Bc looks promising, but wcalc also calls itself an "arbitrary-precision calculator", But for wcalc, I could not find a statement like bc's "All numbers are represented internally in decimal and all computation is done in decimal" Commented Aug 20, 2019 at 6:12
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    I haven't looked at the bc source code to see what it's doing, but "decimal" is not the same as "integer". Commented Aug 20, 2019 at 6:16

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As pointed out in the comments to my question, bc doesn't have this problem. Another solution is the the more powerful command line of Qalculate! which seems to fulfill my needs.

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