Re: bc - calculator
Or you could just use:
'bc -l' on invocation to get bc to treat numbers as 'longs'
HTH
-Daniel
> From: Christoph Simon <ciccio@prestonet.com.br>
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> Subject: Re: bc - calculator
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> On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:39:21 +0100
> Joerg Johannes <liste_joerg@gmx.de> wrote:
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> > This was really great and saved me hours of time. The problem is now,
> > that I have to do the same thing with divisions, meaning 3/4 = 0.75. But
> > bc spits out 3/4 => 0 and 4/3 => 1. Any Idea how I can change this
> > behaviour to get the real results? Would save me some more hours...
>
> I don't use bc but dc. There I have to say
> 5 k
> to get 5 digits of decimal fractions. In bc, syntaxis is different, but
> probably you'll have to do something similar.
>
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> Christoph Simon
> ciccio@prestonet.com.br
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