The calculator utility bc has a minimal math library. For example, there’s no tangent function because you’re expected take the ratio of sine and cosine. (The Gnu version of bc goes have a function for tangent, but the POSIX version does not.) And yet bc includes support for Bessel functions J(x). The bc function j takes two arguments. Is the first argument n or x? Grok said the function arguments are j(n,x). I thought I should run man bc just t…
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