Or you could just use: 'bc -l' on invocation to get bc to treat numbers as 'longs'
HTH -Daniel > From: Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: bc - calculator > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:39:21 +0100 > Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This was really great and saved me hours of time. The problem is now, > > that I have to do the same thing with divisions, meaning 3/4 = 0.75. But > > bc spits out 3/4 => 0 and 4/3 => 1. Any Idea how I can change this > > behaviour to get the real results? Would save me some more hours... > > I don't use bc but dc. There I have to say > 5 k > to get 5 digits of decimal fractions. In bc, syntaxis is different, but > probably you'll have to do something similar. > > -- > Christoph Simon > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
