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Like the Firefox Browser at least one Gnome Terminal window is always open on my desktop. So it’s very convenient to have a command line math calculator.

“bc” (bc – An arbitrary precision calculator language) is a real language to do calculations. But you can also use it to do simple and practical things at the command line:

luigi@luigi-laptop:~$ bc
bc 1.06.94
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
32*3
96
quit
luigi@luigi-laptop:~$

Also the bash has an integrated feature to evaluate simple math operations:

luigi@luigi-laptop:~$ echo $((32*3))
96
luigi@luigi-laptop:~$

I know, both the systems are quite difficult to remember, but you can create a script to have a command easy to recall.