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, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ We might have been the hundred-millionth or so paying customers at one of the local screenings of "Jurassic Park." After all the hoopla, the kid dismissed it as "Not bad for a dinosaur movie." And, as if to add insult to injury, she was right. - jtchew@xxxxxxxxxx (Joe Chew)
