BASH question

[Cameron Simpson]

On 07Sep2006 00:49, Khoa Ton <khoa at puresynergy.com> wrote:
| This should work for you:
| 
| PERMINUTE=$(echo "5 k 28.95 432000 / p" | dc)
| 
| I find dc (man dc) very useful for floating point arithmetic.

I hate to tell you this, but dc does fixed point arithmetic, not
floating point.
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