Re: BASH question

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On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 04:24:55PM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:

>>  On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 16:20 +0200, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
>>  > On 2006-09-08 16:01, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>  > > On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 15:35 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>>  > >> On 07Sep2006 19:17, Khoa Ton <khoa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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!
>>  > >>
>>  > > 
>>  > > I am confused about this discussion. If numbers with fractional parts are handled it
>>  > > is doing floating point arithmetic. bc -l does floating point arithmetic. dc and bc 
>>  > > work in such a different fashion it is hard to think one is a wrapper
>>  > > for the other.
>>  > > 
>>  > 
>>  > Fractional parts is not the same as floating point.  In fixed point
>>  > arithmetic you have a fixed number of decimal places available, and in
>>  > floating point, the point, well, floats.  But in either case you (can)
>>  > have fractional parts.
>>  > 
>>  > And indeed, bc used to be (and perhaps still is?) a front end for dc.
>>  > 
>>  Well I am willing to learn but I am unaware that Pentium cpu-s have any way to represent numbers
>>  with fractional parts other than floating point. So there is no such thing as fixed point representation of 
>>  non-integer numbers on these machines.
>>  
>>  In addition I have not found any way to have dc deal with non-integers but that may be I am
>>  missing something.
>>  

I think you are:  The man page for dc talks about a "precision value"
that controls the number of figures to the right of the decimal point.
You set this value with the "k" command; e.g., "2 k" to set it to 2.

Compare the results of "1 2 / f" and "2 k 1 2 / f" for a quick example.

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