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! Cheers,
Oh, what I meant was "If I ever needed floating point, I will use bc instead of dc". I wasn't actual in need of any point calculations just now. I didn't realize that bc was ever a wrapper for dc. Thanks for this information. If I ever needed proper floating point calculations in the shell, I'll be extra careful as to the commands to perform them. Best regards, Khoa
