BASH question
Khoa Ton
khoa at puresynergy.com
Fri Sep 8 02:17:10 UTC 2006
Cameron Simpson wrote:
> 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.
Thank you for the correction, Cameron. I will use bc instead
of dc for floating point calculations from now on!
Best Regards,
Khoa
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