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. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ionsl
