BASH question

[Cameron Simpson]

On 07Sep2006 19:17, Khoa Ton <khoa at puresynergy.com> wrote:
| >| 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.
| Thank you for the correction, Cameron.  I will use bc instead
| of dc for floating point calculations from now on!

1: What's wrong with fixed point? For your purposes, I mean?
2: bc certainly used to be a wrapper for dc, so it was fixed point too!

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