Re: BASH question

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Ed Greshko wrote:
Andy Green wrote:
M.Lewis wrote:
I thought this was simple, but I've not yet been able to figure out
what is wrong.

#!/bin/sh

PERMINUTE=$((28.95/432000))
No floating point support :-)  But even then, be liberal with spaces

PERMINUTE=$(( 29 / 432000 ))

Right...and since bash only works with integers the result of this
calculation is "0".


That explains the '0' value.

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