Previously Neale Pickett wrote: > Anyhow, I have been very impressed with some of the calculators proposed > here; so impressed that I coded them all up as bourne shell functions > and did some profiling. Because, after all, the speed of your two-digit > division is important stuff! Okay, I'm somewhat late, but there are more. Ther is dc, which can do arbitrary precision: echo "10k 20 13/P" | dc for 10 digits, or echo "100k 20 13/P" | dc There is also a implementation of dc written in sed, see /usr/doc/sed/examples/dc.sed.gz if you have a recent sed package. To use it gunzip it and do echo "10k 20 13/P" | dc.sed It's slow, but I'm giving the person who wrote dc.sed major geek points.. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@wi.LeidenUniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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