Re: floating point hex calc?
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:53:02 -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> At 2003-03-07T09:48:56Z, "Michael D. Crawford"
> <crawford@goingware.com> writes:
>
> > Is there something like what I want for debian, or if not is there
> > something I can compile from source?
>
> `bc' comes with Debian. Start it with the -l flag (to do float
> math), set ibase to 16, and enter A-F in caps. The ">" and ":" show
> what I typed and what bc displayed, respectively.
>
> $ bc -l
> > ibase=16
> > A+B
> : 21
> > 1A.C9E
> : 26.788
But how about output in hexadecimal?
$ bc -l
> ibase=16
> obase=16
> 1.23456
: 01.03 00 14 21
What does this means???
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