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You're welcome. Don't feel bad - it took me a "This thing can't be that dumb" |
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and a man page read to find out it was smarter than I thought <G>. |
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On Wednesday May 24 2006 17:15, Mike Huber wrote: |
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> duh, sorry, case of me not fully reading the manpage. I'll be sure and |
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> fully read before I send to the list. |
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> Thanks a lot, |
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> --Mike |
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> |
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> On 5/24/06, brettholcomb@×××××××××.net <brettholcomb@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > Did you try |
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> > |
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> > scale=n |
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> > |
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> > Where n is the number of digits after the decimal? More in man bc. |
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> > |
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> > > From: "Mike Huber" <michael.huber@×××××.com> |
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> > > Date: 2006/05/24 Wed PM 12:48:29 EDT |
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> > > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> > > Subject: [gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point? |
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> > > |
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> > > Hi, |
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> > > I'm just trying to do some quick calculations using bc, but the |
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> > |
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> > version |
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> > |
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> > > installed through portage truncates on multiplication/division. It |
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> > |
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> > didn't |
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> > |
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> > > used to do this 2 years ago when I was taking number theory, and there |
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> > |
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> > are |
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> > |
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> > > no USE flags available for sys-devel/bc to change this. From the |
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> > |
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> > manpage: |
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> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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> > > |
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> > > The most basic element in bc is the number. Numbers are arbitrary |
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> > |
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> > precision |
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> > |
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> > > numbers. This precision is both in the integer part and the |
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> > |
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> > fractional |
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> > |
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> > > part. All numbers are represented internally in decimal and all |
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> > |
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> > computation |
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> > |
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> > > is done in decimal. (This version truncates results from divide and |
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> > > multiply operations.) There are two attributes of numbers, the length |
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> > |
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> > and |
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> > |
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> > > the scale. The length is the total number of |
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> > |
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> > significant decimal digits |
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> > |
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> > > in a number and the scale is the total number of decimal digits after |
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> > |
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> > the |
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> > |
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> > > decimal point. For example: |
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> > > .000001 has a length of 6 and scale of 6. |
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> > > 1935.000 has a length of 7 and a scale of 3. |
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> > > |
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> > > |
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> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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> > >- |
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> > > |
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> > > |
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> > > Anyone have any ideas? |
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> > > |
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> > > --Mike |
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> > |
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