Re: [gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point?

[Mike Huber]

duh, sorry, case of me not fully reading the manpage.  I'll be sure and
fully read before I send to the list.

Thanks a lot,
--Mike

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