in reply to Favourite One-liners?
I always use Perl when I need to do some calculation.
$ perl -le 'print <arithmetic expression here>'
The debugger is handy for iterative calculations:
$ perl -de0
Update - tip: Be careful with constructs like:
print (5 + 4) * 3;
This is equivalent to (print 5 + 4) * 3, probably not what you want.
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